Helen Liddell
The Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | |
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Official portrait, 2018 | |
| British High Commissioner to Australia | |
| In office 1 September 2005 – 1 October 2009 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | The Lord Goodlad |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Amos |
| Secretary of State for Scotland | |
| In office 24 January 2001 – 12 June 2003 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | Alistair Darling |
| Minister of State for Trade and Industry | |
| In office 29 July 1999 – 24 January 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Battle |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hain |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
| In office 17 May 1999 – 29 July 1999 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston |
| Minister of State for Scotland | |
| In office 28 July 1998 – 17 May 1999 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Brian Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Brian Wilson |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
| In office 3 May 1997 – 27 July 1998 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Angela Knight |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Hewitt |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 7 July 2010 Life peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts Monklands East (1994–1997) | |
| In office 30 June 1994 – 11 April 2005 | |
| Preceded by | John Smith |
| Succeeded by | John Reid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 December 1950 Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Alistair Handerson Liddell
(m. 1972) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Strathclyde |
Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC (née Reilly; born 6 December 1950) is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2003 and British High Commissioner to Australia from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts, previously Monklands East, from 1994 to 2005.