GARDINER, Barry

Member for Brent North since 1997. Committees: Member, Joint Committee on Consolidation of Bills since 2001; Member, Public Accounts Select Committee 1999-2002; Member, Broadcasting Select Committee 1998-2001; Member Procedure Select Committee 1997-2001. Political career: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2006-07; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry 2005-06; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office 2004-05; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Beverley Hughes as Minister of State, Home Office 2002-04; Councillor, Cambridge 1988-94. Special political interests: Trade and industry, social security. Profession/Trade: Average adjuster. Education: Haileybury St Andrews University, MA; Harvard, John F. Kennedy Scholar; Corpus Christi, Cambridge. Hobbies: Bird watching, music, hill walking. b. 10 March 1957, Glasgow. Married with four children.