Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport

The Right Honourable
The Lord Howarth of Newport
CBE PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Howarth of Newport CBE PC
	Official portrait, 2018
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Arts
	In office; 28 July 1998 – 7 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Mark Fisher
Succeeded by	The Baroness Blackstone
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
	In office; 5 May 1997 – 28 July 1998
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Jim Paice
Succeeded by	Margaret Hodge
	In office; 24 July 1989 – 28 November 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher; John Major
Preceded by	John Butcher
Succeeded by	Tim Boswell
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
	In office; 27 July 1988 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Mark Lennox-Boyd
Succeeded by	David Heathcoat-Amory
Member of Parliament ; for Newport East
	In office; 1 May 1997 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	Roy Hughes
Succeeded by	Jessica Morden
Member of Parliament ; for Stratford-on-Avon
	In office; 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Angus Maude
Succeeded by	John Maples
Personal details
Born	Alan Thomas Howarth; 11 June 1944; Marylebone, England
Political party	Labour (1995–present)
Other political; affiliations	Conservative (until 1995)
Spouse	Gillian Chance (m. 1967; div. 1996)
Children	2
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge

Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, CBE, PC (born 11 June 1944), is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative, he is one of few politicians in recent years to have served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour life peer.

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