CLARK, Paul

Member for Gillingham since 1997. Committees: PLP Home Affairs Committee; PLP Transport Committee; PLP DCLG Committee; Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Thames Gateway; Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Regeneration; Director (unpaid), Groundwork Medway/Swale; Board Member (unpaid), Thames Gateway Kent Partnership. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister since 2005; Assistant Government Whip 2003-05; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Falconer, Minister of State, Criminal Justice, Home Office since 2002-03; Parliamentary Private Secretary Lord Falconer, Minister of State, Housing, Planning and Regeneration, DTLR 2001-02; Joint Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Irvine of Lairg as Lord Chancellor 1999-2001; Parliamentary Candidate for Gillingham 1992; Councillor, Gillingham Borough Council 1982-90. Special political interests: Regeneration, housing, planning. Education: Gillingham Grammar School; University of Keele, BA Economics and Politics; University of Derby, Diploma in Management Studies. Affiliations: Amicus; Old Anchorians, Gillingam. Hobbies: Genealogy. b. 29 April 1957, Gillingham, Kent. Married with two children.