BYRNE, Liam

Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill since 2004 by-election. Committees: Member, European Scrutiny Select Committee since 2005. Political Career: Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since October 2008; Minister for the West Midlands 2007-08; Minister of State, Home Office for Borders and Immigration 2007-08, for Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality 2006-07 and for Policing, Security and Community Safety 2006; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Services at the Department of Health 2005-06. Profession/Trade: e-Government solutions 2000-04; N M Rothschild 1997-99; Anderson Consulting 1993-96. Education: Manchester University 1989-92; elected leader of the Student-s Union; Harvard Business School Fulbright Scholar 1999-2000. Author of: Why Labour Won: Lessons from 2005 (2005); The Left-s Agenda for Science (2004); The Fate We-re In (2003); A Chance to Serve; Powered by Politics: Reforming Parties from the Inside; Power to the People, Next Steps for New Labour. Co-editor of: Re-inventing Government Again (2004); Britain in 2020 (forethought 2003); New Strategies for Full Employment (2001); Information Age Government (1998); Local Government Transformed (1996). Married with three children.