Don Touhig

The Right Honourable The Lord Touhig PC KSS
Official portrait, 2022
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans
In office 11 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Ivor Caplin
Succeeded by	Tom Watson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs
In office 12 June 2003 – 10 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
In office 11 June 2001 – 10 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	David Hanson
Succeeded by	Nick Ainger
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office 30 June 2010 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Islwyn
In office 16 February 1995 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Neil Kinnock
Succeeded by	Chris Evans
Personal details
Born	(1947-12-05) 5 December 1947 (age 76) Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales
Political party	Labour and Co-operative
Spouse	Jennifer Hughes ​ ​ (m. 1968; died 2014)​
Children	4
Other offices 1999–2001: Assistant Whip in the Commons 2015–2016: Opposition Whip in the Lords 2015–2017, 2020–2021: Shadow Defence Spokesperson

James Donnelly Touhig, Baron Touhig PC KSS (born 5 December 1947), known as Don Touhig, is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Islwyn from 1995 to 2010.^[1] A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he served in government as an Assistant Whip from 1999 to 2001 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2001 to 2006.