Chair – Johanna Baxter MP

Vice Chair –  Cat Eccles MP

Vice Chair – Lord Goddard of Stockport

Lord Goddard was born in Stockport. He was first elected to Stockport Council in 1990, a position he held for twenty-two consecutive years. He was also a Vice-Chair of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Vice Chair of the AGMA Executive Board. A Board Member of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership [LEP] a Board Member of Manchester International Airport, a Board Member of MIDAS.

As a member of the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue committee for over 10 years, he was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson regionally and nationally on fire matters until 2007. For the last two years I was a member of the Greater Manchester Police Authority and was Vice Chair of Finance.

On 8^th August 2014 Lord Goddard was awarded a Life Peerage from the Queen. He is a member of the Secondary Legislation Committee and a member of several All Party Parliamentary groups, including APGOCATS.

Vice Chair – Lord Black of Brentwood

Lord Black of Brentwood (Guy Black) is Deputy Chairman of the Telegraph Media Group and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2010. He has spoken widely on animal welfare issues, and led the first ever debate in the Lords on the welfare of cats and dogs in 2013.

He is a Patron of International Cat Care, and Patron of Cats Protection’s “Black Cat Society.” When not working on animal welfare issues, he is also Chairman of the Royal College of Music, and of the Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust.

He and his husband Mark have owned cats for over twenty years. Their first two – Alexandra and Victoria (pictured) were Russian blues, both sadly now passed on. The most recent addition to their family is Destino, a fluffy, lively, ginger rescue cat.

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