Douglas Hogg

The Right Honourable The Viscount Hailsham PC KC
Hogg in 2024
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office 2 May 1997 – 17 June 1997
Leader	John Major
Preceded by	Jack Cunningham
Succeeded by	David Curry
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	William Waldegrave
Succeeded by	Jack Cunningham
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 2 November 1990 – 5 July 1995
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	William Waldegrave
Succeeded by	Sir Nicholas Bonsor
Minister of State for Industry
In office 26 July 1989 – 2 November 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	The Lord Hesketh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs
In office 10 September 1986 – 26 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Glenarthur
Succeeded by	Peter Lloyd
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 November 2015 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Sleaford and North Hykeham Grantham (1979–1997)
In office 3 May 1979 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Joseph Godber
Succeeded by	Stephen Phillips
Personal details
Born	(1945-02-05) 5 February 1945 (age 79) London, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Sarah Boyd-Carpenter ​ ​ (m. 1968)​
Children	2
Parents	Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (father) Mary Martin (mother)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe, PC, KC (born 5 February 1945) is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in John Major’s second government as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.

The Daily Telegraph in 2009 exposed Hogg for claiming upwards of £2,000 of taxpayers' money for the purposes of "cleaning the moat" of his country estate, Kettlethorpe Hall; thus he became one of the most prominent illustrations used by the media to portray the extent of the parliamentary expenses scandal, although it later emerged that Hogg had been encouraged by the House of Commons Fees Office (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's precursor) to submit equivalent en bloc expenses "so as to reduce admin". As a result of the negative publicity, Hogg did not seek re-election at the 2010 general election.

Aside from his hereditary peerage, he was made a life peer in the 2015 Dissolution Honours allowing him a seat in the House of Lords. As a member of the House of Lords he is styled Viscount Hailsham by parliamentary custom, the family title to which he succeeded in 2001.^[1]