Joel Barnett

The Right Honourable The Lord Barnett PC
Barnett's last appearance at House of Lords questions.
Chair of the Public Accounts Committee
In office July 1979 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by	Edward du Cann
Succeeded by	Robert Sheldon
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 4 May 1979 – 14 July 1979
Leader	James Callaghan
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 5 March 1974 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson James Callaghan
Preceded by	Tom Boardman
Succeeded by	John Biffen
Member of Parliament for Heywood and Royton
In office 15 October 1964 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by	Tony Leavey
Succeeded by	Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born	(1923-10-14)14 October 1923 Manchester, England
Died	1 November 2014(2014-11-01) (aged 91) Manchester, England
Political party	Labour

Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, PC (14 October 1923 – 1 November 2014) was a Labour Party politician. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the late 1970s, he devised the Barnett Formula that allocates public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.^[1]