Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Bloggers 4 Steve Webb

Steve Webb
Biography

Date of birth 18 July 1965

Family Steve is married with a daughter and a son

Career Before the 1997 Election Steve was Professor of Social Policy at Bath University. Before that from 1985 - 1996 Steve worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies specialising in tax and benefits.

Interests football (West Bromwich Albion), music (oboe, piano, organ), reading

Political career Steve joined the Liberal Democrats in 1992 and became PPC for the Northavon constituency in 1995 which he won at the 1997 general election.
He is former Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Groups Vice-chair of the All Party Group on Poverty
Member of the Jubilee 2000 All Party Group
Patron of the Westminster Ethical Policy Forum
Trustee of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship
Co-chair of the Church Parliament Dialogue

Major campaigns As Liberal Democrat pension spokesman, Steve has campaigned in Parliament and around the country for a fairer deal for Britain's pensioners. He has also campaigned hard on a wide range of constituency issues including school funding and housebuilding on greenfield sites.

Political interests third world issues, social security

1 comment:

Tim Leunig said...

Great tho' Steve is, he isn't shadow SoS for W&P - that is Danny Alexander, and before that David Laws, and before that is was Steve.