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WEBB, Steven |
North Avon |
Liberal Democrat |
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 Member for North Avon since 1997. Political career: LD Health Spokesperson since 2005; Member, LD Social Security and Welfare Team since 1997-2005; LD Work and Pensions Spokesperson 1999-2005; Specialist Adviser to Social Select Committee 1991-96; Member of Commission on Social Justice 1992-94. Special political interests: Social security and welfare issues, social policy, tax and benefits, overseas aid and development, Third-World debt. Profession/Trade: Economist/Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath. Education: Dartmouth High School, Birmingham; Hertford College, Oxford, First Class Hons PPE. Affiliations: Amnesty International, World Development Movement. Author of: Inequality in the UK (1997); Beyond the Welfare State (1990); For Richer, For Poorer (IFS Commentary No. 42, 1994). Hobbies: Football, West Bromwich Albion, most spectator sports, reading, travel.
b. 18 July 1965, Birmingham. Married with two children.
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2001 |
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| LIB DEM HOLD |
Votes |
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+/- % |
Votes |
% |
| Lib Dem |
30,872 |
52.3 |
-0.1 |
29,217 |
52.4 |
| Conservative |
19,839 |
33.6 |
-1.1 |
19,340 |
34.7 |
| Labour |
6,277 |
10.6 |
-0.9 |
6,450 |
11.6 |
| UKIP |
1,032 |
1.8 |
0.4 |
751 |
1.3 |
| Green |
922 |
1.6 |
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| Independent |
114 |
0.2 |
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| Majority |
11,033 |
18.7 |
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9,877 |
17.7 |
| Turnout |
59,056 |
72.2 |
1.5 |
55,758 |
70.7 |
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