Responsibilities
Lord Marland supports the Secretary of State on:
- Departmental performance and delivery
- Efficiency
- Managing liabilities, including coal health and the Concessionary Fuel Scheme
- Departmental business in the Lords
- Transparency
- Managing the nuclear legacy, including NDA performance and delivery (supported by the Shareholder Executive) and policy on plutonium
- Civil nuclear security, including responsibility for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary
- Commercial negotiations
Biography
Lord Jonathan Marland is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Chairman of UK Trade and Investment’s Business Ambassadors' Group. He was awarded a life peerage in 2006 as Baron Marland of Odstock.
Before entering Government, Lord Marland was Opposition Whip in the Lords as well as Opposition Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office in 2009-10.
Outside of politics, Lord Marland was one of the founding directors of Jardine Lloyd Thomson plc, a multinational insurance business and also founded the Jubilee insurance company at Lloyd's of London. He led the acquisitions of Hunter Wellington Boots, Insurance Capital Partners, Janspeed Performance Ltd and Wisden Cricketer Magazine. He is a Trustee of Peggy Guggenheim (UK), the Churchill Society, Atlantic Partnerships, The Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians and chairman of Tickets for Troops.
He is the President of Salisbury City F.C. and a member of the MCC.
Born in 1956 and educated at Shrewsbury School, Lord Marland is married to Penny, a Probation Officer, and they have four children together.