Andrew McIntosh
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Rt Hon Lord (Andrew) McIntosh of Haringey was Minister for the Media
and Heritage at the Department for Culture Media and Sport from
2003 to 2005. His responsibilities included broadcasting and press
regulation, heritage and architecture, libraries, and gambling regulation.
He was also spokesman in the House of Lords for HM Treasury from
1997 to 2005.
Andrew became a life peer in 1983. From 1985 to 1997 he was
opposition spokesperson for Education and Science, the Environment,
and Home Affairs. He was Deputy Leader of the Opposition 1992–7.
Following the 1997 election, he became Deputy Chief Whip (Captain of
the Queen’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard) from 1997 to
2003, and a government spokesperson for the Treasury, Trade and
Industry, Culture Media and Sport, Scotland, and Transport. He became
a Privy Counsellor in 2002.
His business career, as a survey and market researcher, from 1957
to 1997 included posts at the Gallup Poll, Hoover, and Osram (GEC).
He founded and ran his own business market research company, IFF
Research Ltd from 1965 to 1996. His professional affiliation has been in
the Market Research Society, of which he was journal editor (1963–7),
Chairman (1972–3), President (1995–8), and is now Honorary Fellow.
He has published two books and many journal articles on the theory,
practice and findings of survey research.
In local government, he was a member of Hornsey and Haringey
Borough Councils (1963–8), and of the Greater London Council
(1973–83) where he was Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1981.
He has been Chairman of the Fabian Society, and honorary Principal of
the Working Men’s College in London. In 2005 he became President of
GAMCARE, the National Association for Gambling Care Educational
Resources and Training.
