FIELD, Frank Rt Hon

Member for Birkenhead since 1979. Committees: Chair, Social Security Select Committee. Political career: Hounslow Councillor 1964–68; Parliamentary Candidate for Buckinghamshire South 1966; former Frontbench Spokesperson on Education and Social Security. Special political interests: Income distribution, taxation, social security, industrial policy. Profession/Trade: Director, Child Poverty Action Group. Education: Honorary Doctor of Law, Liverpool University 2006; St Clements Danes Grammar School; Hull University; Honorary Doctor of Law, University of Warwick; Doctorate of Science, University of Southampton. Affiliations: Director, Low Pay Unit 1974–80; Director, Child Poverty Action Group 1969–79. Author of: Neighbours from Hell: the Politics of Behaviour (2003); Reflections on Welfare Reform, Social Market Foundation (1998); Reforming Welfare, Social Market Foundation (1997); How to Pay for the Future: Establishing a Stakeholder’s Welfare (1996); Making Welfare Work: Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium (1995); Beyond Punishment: Hard Choices on the Road to Full Employment (1994); Europe Isn’t Working (1994); An Agenda for Britain (1993); Losing Out: The Emergence of Britain’s Underclass (1989).
b. 16 July 1942, London.