Ben Houchen

The Right Honourable
The Lord Houchen of High Leven
Official portrait, 2024
Tees Valley Mayor
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 May 2017
Preceded byOffice established
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
12 July 2023
Personal details
Born (1986-12-09) 9 December 1986
Stockton-on-Tees, England
PartyConservative
Spouse
Rachel Flanagan
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(m. 2011)​
Alma materNorthumbria University
WebsiteOfficial website
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Ben Houchen, Baron Houchen of High Leven (born 9 December 1986) is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He has been Tees Valley Mayor since 2017, winning the inaugural mayoral election in the combined authority. Houchen was re-elected in 2021 and won a third term in 2024.

As mayor, Houchen represents the five local authority areas in the Tees Valley: Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool, and Darlington, and he also acts as chairman of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, the body tasked with driving economic growth and job creation in the area.

After the May 2024 local elections, Houchen was the Conservative Party's only combined authority mayor in England, until Paul Bristow won the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election in May 2025.

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