TAYLOR, Dari

Member for Stockton South since 1997. Committees: Member, House of Commons Select Committee on Defence 1997-2001; Treasurer, All-Party Chemicals Group; Vice-Chair, All-Party Adoption Group; Member, All-Party All Cancers Group, All-Party Breast Cancer Group; Member, All-Party Opera Group; Member, GMB Group of MPs; Vice- Chair, Labour Women-s Forum; Secretary, All-Party Cardiac Risk in the Young Group; Member, All-Party Child Abduction Group; Chair, All-Party Infertility Group; Member, Intelligence and Security Committee. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Hazel Blears, Home Office 2003-05; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lewis Moonie and Lord Bach (Ministry of Defence) 2001-03; Councillor, Sunderland Metropolitan Council 1987-87. Special political interests: Domestic violence, drugs and crime, child welfare, adoption. Profession/Trade: FE lecturer. Education: Ynyshir Girls School; Burnley Municipal College; University of Nottingham, BA (Hons); University of Durham, MA. Affiliations: General Municipal and Boilermakers Union (GMB). Hobbies: Choral singing, tap dancing, walking, travelling. b. 13 December 1944, Ynyshir Rhondda. Married with one child.