Hacking was elected as
Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Chorley Division of
Lancashire in
December 1918 and sat for the constituency until
June 1945. He was
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir
James Craig at the Ministry of Pensions in 1920 and at the Admiralty from 1920 to 1921; then to Sir
Laming Worthington-Evans as
Secretary of State for War from 1921 to 1922. He was
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1922 to 1924 and from November 1924 to December 1925; Conservative
Whip, 1922–1925. He held junior ministerial office as Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and Representative of the
Office of Works in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1927; as
Secretary for Overseas Trade,
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, and
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1927–1929; as Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1933–1934; as
Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1934–1935; and as Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1935–1936. He appointed to be a
Justice of the Peace and
Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Surrey in 1940. He was awarded the
Freedom of the Borough of
Chorley on 30 November 1946. He was created a
Baronet,
of Altham in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the
1938 Birthday Honours, was sworn of the
Privy Council in the
1929 Dissolution Honours and was raised to the peerage as
Baron Hacking,
of Chorley in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the
1945 Dissolution Honours. ==Other positions held==