Stephen Dorrell

The Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell
Dorrell in 2012
Secretary of State for Health
In office 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Virginia Bottomley
Succeeded by	Frank Dobson
Secretary of State for National Heritage
In office 20 July 1994 – 4 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Peter Brooke
Succeeded by	Virginia Bottomley
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 14 April 1992 – 19 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Francis Maude
Succeeded by	Sir George Young
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
In office 4 May 1990 – 14 April 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	Roger Freeman
Succeeded by	Tom Sackville
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office 20 December 1988 – 3 May 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Tony Durant
Succeeded by	Michael Fallon
Shadow cabinet posts Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment In office 11 June 1997 – 2 June 1998 Leader William Hague Preceded by Gillian Shephard Succeeded by David Willetts Shadow Secretary of State for Health In office 2 May 1997 – 11 June 1997 Leader John Major Preceded by Chris Smith Succeeded by John Maples
Parliamentary offices Member of Parliament for Charnwood In office 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Edward Argar Member of Parliament for Loughborough In office 3 May 1979 – 8 April 1997 Preceded by John Cronin Succeeded by Andy Reed
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-25) 25 March 1952 (age 72) Worcester, England
Political party	Liberal Democrats (2019–present)
Other political affiliations	Conservative (before 2019) Change UK (2019)
Spouse	Penelope Taylor
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford
Website	Official website

Stephen James Dorrell (born 25 March 1952) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.^[1] He served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough between 1979 and 1997 and then for Charnwood from 1997 to 2015.

Dorrell most recently served for four years as Chairman of the House of Commons Health Select Committee from 2010 to 2014. In the 1990s he was a full member of John Major's Cabinet for almost three years, whilst serving as both Secretary of State for National Heritage and then Secretary of State for Health until the 1997 general election. He did not contest the 2015 general election and retired from the House of Commons. Returning to politics in 2019, he left the Conservatives and stood as a Change UK candidate at the 2019 European Parliament election. After failing to be elected, he defected to the Liberal Democrats and was the unsuccessful Liberal Democrat candidate for Buckingham in the 2019 general election.