Councillor Ram Parkash Lakha OBE
Party: Labour
Ward: Binley and Willenhall
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Surgery details
Second Friday of every month, 9.30am – 11.30am at Haggard Community Centre, Remembrance Road, CV3 3DG
Last Friday of every month, 6pm – 7.30pm at Willenhall Social Club, Robin Hood Road, CV3 3BB
Contact information
Correspondence address:
C/O Member Services
The Council House
Earl Street
Coventry
CV1 5RR
Bus. phone: 024 7697 5555
Email: ram.lakha@coventry.gov.uk
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Committee appointments
- Audit and Procurement Committee (Chair)
- Cabinet (By Invitation)
- Council
- Finance and Corporate Services Scrutiny Board (1)
- Joint Meeting of Business, Economy and Enterprise Scrutiny Board (3) and Finance and Corporate Services Scrutiny Board (1)
- Licensing and Regulatory Committee
Terms of Office
- 04/05/1989 - 03/05/1990
- 02/05/1991 - 10/06/2004
- 10/06/2004 - 06/05/2007
- 06/05/2007 - 05/05/2011
- 05/05/2011 - 10/05/2015
- 10/05/2015 - 05/05/2019
- 05/05/2019 - 04/05/2023
- 04/04/2023 -
Appointments to outside bodies
- Coventry Airport Consultative Committee
- Coventry Association for International Friendship
- Coventry General Charities Trustees
- Special Interest Groups of Municipal Authorities (SIGOMA)
- Tom Mann Centre Trust Management Committee
- West Midlands Combined Authority Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee
Additional Information
Councillor Ram Lakha was Lord Mayor of Coventry for 2005-06. He was first elected in May 1989 in Upper Stoke Ward. Then after with one years’ absence, he was elected in May 1991 to represent Binley and Willenhall Ward and has happily been serving this ward as Labour Councillor since then.
He was born in a small village (Nawan Pind Naicha) in Indian Punjab in 1949. He graduated from Punjab University (India) in 1969 and was married to Meto (who had been a Radford Ward Councillor from 1992-1994 and a Foleshill Ward Councillor from May 2000 to 2004).
Working background
Councillor Ram Lakha has worked in various fields and was a civil servant in India for five years. Here in Coventry he has worked on the shop floor, and as part of management, for over 14 years in metal finishing and industrial painting. He has also worked in the voluntary sector, parcel delivery services, and as a shop-keeper. Councillor Lakha is now a full-time councillor.
He served on the West Midlands Fire and Civil Defence Authority for one year as representative of the council. He also served as a Non-Executive Director of Whitefriars Housing Group. He was a governor of Coventry Technical College during 1989-90 and served as a school governor of Stoke Park Secondary School for over ten years. He is currently the school governor of Willenhall Community Primary School.
Elections
- Local - City and Parish Elections, 04/05/2023
- Local - City & Parish Council Elections, 02/05/2019
- Local - Parliamentary & Local Elections, 07/05/2015