BAYLEY, Hugh

Member for City of York since 1992. Committees: Member, Commons Select Committee on International Development; Member, Chairman-s Panel; Member, NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Vice-Chair, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; Chair, Westminster Foundation for Democracy; Chair, African All-Party Parliamentary Group. Political career: Junior Minister, Department of Social Security 1999-2001; Parliamentary Private Secretary of State for Health 1997-99; Member, Health Select Committee 1992-97; Founder-Secretary, London Labour Co-ordinating Committee 1982; Councillor, London Borough of Camden 1980-86; Member, Executive Committee and National Committee of Anti-Apartheid Movement, Vice-Chair of its trade union committee, Chair of its local authority network 1973-86; Member of Standing Committees looking at Railway, Sunday Trading, Pensions and Finance Bills; former-Chair, Parliamentary Labour Party Sub-committee on Tourism; Secretary, PLP Foreign Affairs Committee; Chair, PLP International Development Committee. Special political interests: International development, foreign affairs, defence. Profession/Trade: Television producer; trade union official (NALGO); Lecturer in Social Policy and later Research Fellow in Health Economics, University of York 1986-92. Education: University of Bristol, BSc; University of York, BPhil. Author of: The Nation-s Health (1995). Affiliations: Member, BECTU. Hobbies: Walking, photography. b. 9 January 1952, Maidenhead. Married with two children.