Long-serving Parliamentary adviser to the Society dies
A former government minister who was a Parliamentary adviser to the Pharmaceutical Society for 18 years has died.
Gordon Oakes was a Labour member of Parliament for constituencies in
the north-west of England from 1964 to 1997. He served as Under-Secretary
of State for the Environment from 1974 to 1976 and as Minister of State
in the Department of Education and Science from 1976 to 1979.
When Labour lost power in 1979, Mr Oakes became an opposition spokesman
on the environment and also accepted an appointment as one of two Parliamentary
advisers to the Society. He continued advising the Society on Parliamentary
matters until 1997, when he retired from Parliament. He died on 15 August
at the age of 74.
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