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WRIGHT, David

Telford Labour
 

Member for Telford since 2001. Committees: Chair, All-Party World Heritage Sites Group since 2004; Vice-Chair, All- Party Architecture and Planning Group since 2003; Member, Procedure Committee 2001-05; Member, Administration Committee 2001-02; Member, Environmental Audit Select Committee since 2001. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon John Hutton as Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions 2006; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon David Miliband as Minister of Communities and local Government 2005-06; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rosie Winterton at the Department of Health 2004-05. Special political interests: Housing and regeneration, culture and heritage, poverty. Profession/Trade: Member, Chartered Institute of Housing. Education: New College, Telford; Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Degree in Humanities (1988). Affiliations: TGWU. Hobbies: Watching local football; local history. b. 22 December 1966. Married.

 
  2005     2001  
LAB HOLD Votes % +/- % Votes %
Labour 16,506 48.3 -6.3 16,854 54.6
Conservative 11,100 32.5 5.0 8,471 27.4
Lib Dem 4,941 14.4 1.5 3,983 12.9
UKIP 1,659 4.9 1.3 1,098 3.6
Soc Alliance       469 1.5
Majority 5,406 15.8   8.383 27.2
Turnout 34,206 57.7 5.8 30,875 51.9