Going up

(Photograph) - Going up: John Horam, MP for Orpington, Kent, was this week appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for the Office of Science and Technology. Mr Horam, aged 56, has replaced Robert Hughes who resigned over an affair he had six months ago.

Mr Horam will have served in both Conservative and Labour governments, having been a junior transport minister in the Callaghan government from 1976 to 1979. He joined the Conservative party in 1987 after a spell in the Social Democratic Party.