What is Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett?
{{Infobox Officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] |name = The Lord Barnett |honorific-suffix = [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] |office = [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]] |primeminister = [[Harold Wilson]]<br>[[James Callaghan]] |term_start = 5 March 1974 |term_end = 4 May 1979 |predecessor = [[Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman|Tom Boardman]] |successor = [[John Biffen]] |office2 = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] <br> for [[Heywood and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)|Heywood and Royton]] |term_start2 = 15 October 1964 |term_end2 = 9 June 1983 |predecessor2 = [[Tony Leavey]] |successor2 = [[Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)|Constituency Abolished]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1923|10|14|df=y}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|11|01|1923|10|14|df=y}} |death_place = [[Manchester]], England |party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] }} '''Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett''', [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (14 October 1923 &ndash; 1 November 2014), was a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician. As [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]] in the late 1970s, he created the [[Barnett Formula]] that fixed the amount of public spending in [[Scotland]], [[Wales]] and [[Northern Ireland]]. Barnett died in [[Manchester]], England, aged 91.<ref name=BBC29877123>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29877123 Lord Barnett, creator of formula for UK spending allocations, dies], ''BBC News'', 3 November 2014</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnett, Joel}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Members of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom]] {{bio-stub}} [[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs]]