Helen Liddell

The Right Honourable The Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2010 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts Monklands East (1994–97)
In office 30 June 1994 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	John Smith
Succeeded by	John Reid
Personal details
Born	(1950-12-06) 6 December 1950 (age 73) 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.