Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath
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Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, OBE (born 1949) has been Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice since July 2007. Before that he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords) at the DWP and the Department of Health, and was previously a junior Minister at the Department of Heath from 1999 until his resignation in 2003 over the Invasion of Iraq.
He was educated at the City of Oxford High School and Oxford School and left Leeds University in 1970 with a BA in political studies.
Lord Hunt became a works study officer in 1972 for the Oxford Regional Hospital Board, moving to Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as hospital administrator in 1974. He was the first Secretary of Edgware and Hendon Community Health Council. He was the first Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, and previously Director of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts (NAHAT) from its formation in 1990. Before that he was Director of its predecessor organisation, the National Association of Health Authorities (NAHA) from 1984 to 1990.
In 1997, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, of Birmingham in the County of West Midlands.
Lord Hunt's son, Jacob Hunt Stewart, famously hit the headlines in 2003 when he attended a Birmingham anti-war rally. Jacob went on to serve as the Chair of Sheffield University Labour Club 2007-8 and is also a member of Young Labour's Block of 7.
