David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin Baron Filkin CBE (born 1 July 1944) is a British Labour politician.Filkin having been appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the 1997 New Year's Honours was created a life peer as Baron Filkin of Pimlico in the City of Westminster on 29 July 1999.He has held a number of Government offices first as Lord in Waiting (junior Whip) from June 2001 to May 2002 then as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from May 2002 until June 2003 and then as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Departments for Constitutional Affairs (June 2003 to September 2004) and Education and Skills (September 2004 to May 2005).[citation needed]