Paul Edward Winston White, Baron Hanningfield (born 16 September 1940) is a British politician and a formerly suspended member of the House of Lords.
He served in various leadership roles in local government as a Conservative and was influential in the establishment of the Local Government Association.
He achieved notoriety in the Parliamentary expenses scandal, when he was convicted of false accounting and sent to prison.
Following his release he was suspended from the House of Lords.
White was created a Life Peer on 31 July 1998, as Baron Hanningfield, of Chelmsford in the County of Essex, and is thus known as Lord Hanningfield.