STOATE, Howard Dr

Member for Dartford since 1997. Committees: Member, Health Select Committee since 2005; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Patient Safety; Member, House of Commons Health Select Committee 1997-2001; Chair, All- Party Pharmacy Group; Chair, All-Party Primary Care and Public Health Group; Chair, All-Party Men-s Health Group; Co-Chair, All-Party Obesity Group; Vice-Chair, All-Party Asthma Group; Treasurer, All-Party Asthma Group; Secretary, PLP Health Group; Vice-Chair, All-Party Health Forum. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon Estelle Morris MP, Minister for Arts 2003-05; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon John Denham MP, Minister of State at the Home Office 2001-03; Dartford Borough Councillor 1990-99; Chair of Finance 1995-97. Special political interests: Health, environment, home affairs, local government. Profession/Trade: General practitioner; GP tutor. Education: Kingston Grammar School; Kings College London, MBBS, MSc; Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Author of: All-s Well That Starts Well - Strategy for Children-s Health (2002). Affiliations: Amicus. Hobbies: Running, sailing, reading, travel. b. 14 April 1954, Weymouth. Married with two children.