Rt Hon Lord Butler of Brockwell KG, GCB CVO
Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Robin Butler was raised to the House of Lords in 1998 as Lord Butler of Brockwell. He had been Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service with three Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.
He joined the civil service in the Treasury in 1961, being seconded to the Cabinet Office ten years later. He served as Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Edward Heath and Harold Wilson. He held very senior positions in the Treasury after that, and he also worked as Mrs Thatcher's Principal Private Secretary prior to becoming Cabinet Secretary from 1988-98. He became Master of University College Oxford in 1998.
In the House of Lords, he has been a Member of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords, a Member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform select Committee, and he was also the Chairman of the Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq in 2004.
His Political interests include Higher education, the civil service, and constitutional matters.