Member for Crawley since 1997. Special political interests: Housing, health, aerospace, aviation. Education: Hazlewick School, Crawley; Crawley College of Technology.
b. 9 April 1954. Married with three children.

2005				2001
LAB HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Labour	16,411	39.1	-10.2	19,488	49.3
Conservative	16,374	39.0	6.8	12,718	32.2
Lib Dem	6,503	15.5	2.8	5,009	12.7
BNP	1,277	3.0	-	-	-
UKIP	935	2.2	-0.7	1,137	2.9
Dem Soc	263	0.6	-	-	-
Justice Party	210	0.5	-0.2	271	0.7
Loony Party	-	-	-	383	1.0
Soc Lab	-	-	-	260	0.7
Soc Alliance	-	-	-	251	0.6
Majority	37	0.1		6,770	17.1
Turnout	41,973	58.4	3.2	39,517	55.2