Dianne Hayter

The Right Honourable The Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
Born	(1949-09-07)September 7, 1949 Hanover
Occupation	Labour Peer
Alma mater	Trevelyan College University of Durham

Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (born 7 September 1949) is a British politician and Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords who has served as a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee from 1998 to 2010 representing the Socialist Societies. She was Chair of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2008.

Early life

She is the daughter of Flt Lt Alec Bristow Hayter (d 1972), and Nancy Evans (d 1959). Educated at Trevelyan College, Durham University, where she studied Social and Public Administration (BA),^[1] she gained a doctorate at London University in 2004.

Labour Party

She was the General Secretary of the Fabian Society between 1976 and 1982 and Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party during 1990 to 1996. Hayter has written Fabian Tract no. 451—The Labour Party: Crisis and Prospects (September 1977), Fightback—Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s (2005), and Men Who Made Labour—Celebrating the Centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party (2006) (with Lord Haworth).

The Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the People's History Museum in Manchester holds the personal papers of Diane Hayter in their collection, spanning from the late 1970s to 2010.^[2]

Organisations

She is a board member of a number of organisations, including the Financial Reporting Council's Board of Actuarial Standards, the Determinations Panel of The Pensions Regulator, the Surveying Ombudsman Service, and the Insolvency Practices Council. She is chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel and was formerly vice chairman of the Financial Services Authority Consumer Panel and chair of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.^[3]

Peerage

On 22 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, of Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden, and was introduced in the House of Lords the same day.^[4][5]

Personal life

Dianne Hayter lives in Kentish Town, London with her husband, Professor (Anthony) David Caplin (married 1994).^[6]

Publications

• The Labour Party: crisis and prospects (Fabian Soc.), 1977;
• (contrib.) Labour in the Eighties, 1980;
• (contrib.) Prime Minister Portillo and Other Things that Never Happened, 2003;
• Fightback!: Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s, 2005;
• (ed jtly with Lord Haworth) Men Who Made Labour, 2006;
• (contrib.) From the Workhouse to Welfare, 2009.

References

External links

• Labour Party profile
• National Consumer Council profile
• Fightback!: Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s, Dianne Hayter, 2005, ISBN 0-7190-7271-9