Member for Amber Valley since 1997. Committees: Member, Trade and Industry Select Committee since 2003; Member, Education and Employment Select Committee 1997-2001; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Textiles, Clothing and Footwear; Vice-Chair, Trade Union Group of Labour MPs; Co-Chair, UNISON Group of Labour MPs. Political career: Member, Regional Labour Party Executive; Chair, Constituency Labour Party; Member, Advisory Council, Northern College for Adult Education; Member, NCCL Women's Rights Committee; former Chair, Labour Research Department. Special political interests: Employment, equal opportunities, education, local government, civil liberties. Profession/Trade: Director, then Research Fellow, Local Government Information Unit 1985-95; Senior Research Officer, NUPE 1975-85. Education: St Anne's College, Oxford. Affiliations: UNISON, Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth, Action for Southern Africa. Hobbies: Cinema, theatre, reading.
b. 10 July 1951.

2005				2001
LAB HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Labour	21,593	45.6	-6.3	23,101	51.9
Conservative	16,318	34.4	-1.2	15,874	35.7
Lib Dem	6,225	13.1	0.7	5,538	12.4
BNP	1,243	2.6	-	-	-
Veritas	1,224	2.6	-	-	-
UKIP	788	1.7	-	-	-
Majority	5,275	11.1		7,227	16.2
Turnout	47,391	62.9	2.6	44,513	60.3