Simon Haskel, Baron Haskel (born 9 October 1934) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer.

[1] Simon Haskel was educated at Sedbergh School and Salford College of Advanced Technology (now the University of Salford), where he graduated with a BSc in Textile Technology.

[2] He then built up his own national and international textile firm, the Perrotts Group Plc.

[3] Haskel was created a life peer in the House of Lords on 4 October 1993, taking the title Baron Haskel, of Higher Broughton in the County of Greater Manchester.

[4] He served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the first Blair ministry from May 1997 to August 1998.