Member for Wolverhampton South East since 1987. Committees: Chair, House of Commons Catering Committee; Member, Select Committee on Education 1988-94; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Further Education 1991; Committee on Unopposed Bills; Parliamentary Labour Party Committees on Education, Science and Arts, Home Affairs, Health and Social Security; United Nations Parliamentary Group and Overseas Group on Development. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon Clare Short, Secretary of State for International Development since 1997; Member, AMA 1980-86; Member, West Midlands County Council 1973-86; Member, Wolverhampton Borough Council 1966-86; Parliamentary Candidate for Stourbridge and Halesowen 1974; Labour Whip for Defence and West Midlands. Education: Bilston College of Further Education. Affiliations: Member, Co-operative Party; Executive Member, IPU and CPA; Bradley Community Association since 1983; President, Bilston Community Association since 1985; Partner in social and leisure co-operative; Age Concern.
b. 26 August 1942, Bradley, Bilston. Married with two children.