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05/02/2010
Paralympian Joins The Lords
Britain's most successful Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson is to be ennobled, along with three other new non-party-political peers.
Dame Tanni has 11 gold medals in wheelchair racing to her name from the Paralympics, and seven gold medals from World Championships.
She also set 30 world records throughout her career. Since her retirement in May 2007, Dame Tanni has campaigned to raise the profile of disability athletics.
She is a Non-Executive Director of the Board of UK Athletics and led the UK Athletics Review into anti-doping policy.
Dame Tanni is also Vice-Chair of the Athletes Committee of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and for eight years was a Member of the Sports Council for Wales.
She will be joined in the Upper Chamber by Sir Michael Bichard, Chair of the Design Council and Director of the Institute for Government; Royal Opera House Chief Executive Tony Hall; and Professor Ajay Kakkar, surgeon and thrombosis specialist.
The four new peers were recommended by the Lord Appointments Commission, a non-statutory advisory body set up by the Prime Minister to propose non-party-political peerages.
The commission has now recommended a total of 55 non-party-political peerages to the Prime Minister, drawn from well over 4,000 nominations. It also vets nominations for life peers, including those nominated by the UK political parties, for propriety.
(PR/GK)
Dame Tanni has 11 gold medals in wheelchair racing to her name from the Paralympics, and seven gold medals from World Championships.
She also set 30 world records throughout her career. Since her retirement in May 2007, Dame Tanni has campaigned to raise the profile of disability athletics.
She is a Non-Executive Director of the Board of UK Athletics and led the UK Athletics Review into anti-doping policy.
Dame Tanni is also Vice-Chair of the Athletes Committee of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and for eight years was a Member of the Sports Council for Wales.
She will be joined in the Upper Chamber by Sir Michael Bichard, Chair of the Design Council and Director of the Institute for Government; Royal Opera House Chief Executive Tony Hall; and Professor Ajay Kakkar, surgeon and thrombosis specialist.
The four new peers were recommended by the Lord Appointments Commission, a non-statutory advisory body set up by the Prime Minister to propose non-party-political peerages.
The commission has now recommended a total of 55 non-party-political peerages to the Prime Minister, drawn from well over 4,000 nominations. It also vets nominations for life peers, including those nominated by the UK political parties, for propriety.
(PR/GK)
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