Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1992 to 1995 he was Minister of State at the Scottish Office covering Home Affairs and Health. He was then Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry with a responsibility for export promotion and overseas investment with particular emphasis on the oil and gas industry. In 1996 he became Minister for Energy.
Before that he was Lord Advocate of Scotland, ie the attorney general responsible for investigating the Lockerbie bombing, which he evidently "mishandled" (depending on your point of view - some would have said the only thing that mattered was to convict a Libyan).
The Lockerbie link is worth a click (warning, this concerns what goes on in Malta, etc...)
He also chaired the relatively few disciplinary appeals we had. There was a ferocious ex-judge who chaired the disciplinary tribunals....
A thoroughly nice and clubbable man, and with the ability to grasp complex briefs which QC's have to have. But I don't think his grasp of trading/commercial issues was any better than mine (which is not great, compared to the HiDs of this world).
He's very much rooted in the Establishment of course. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
