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Hugh Bayley (born
January 9,
1952)
British politician. He is the
Labour member of Parliament for
The City of York.
Early life
Bayley was born in
Maidenhead,
Berkshire and was educated at the independent
Haileybury, the
University of Bristol, where he obtained a
Politics BSc degree in 1974; and the
University of York where he was awarded a
BPhil degree in
Southern African Studies in 1976. After his studies in 1975 he became a District Officer and later a National Officer with
NALGO until 1982.
He was elected as a councillor in the
London Borough of Camden in 1980. He became the General Secretary of the
International Broadcasting Trust in 1982. Bayley stepped down as a councillor and moved to
York to take up a post as Research Officer in
Health Economics at the
University of York from 1987-92. He was a lecturer in Social Policy at the University from 1986 until 1998.
Parliamentary career
Hugh Bayley was nominated as the Labour candidate for York at the
1987 General Election but was defeated by just 147 votes by the
Conservative Conal Gregory. After the election, Hugh Bayley became a Health Economics Research Fellow at the University of York, and became a member of the local health authority.
Conal Gregory and Hugh Bayley again fought it out at the
1992 General Election in York and this time Bayley won by a comfortable margin. After his election he made his
maiden speech on
May 7,
1992 and joined the
Health Select Committee. The name of the York constituency and its boundaries were changed and Bayley won a majority of over 20,000 at the
1997 General Election.
After the election, Bayley became the
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson who lived near York, and was promoted to
Tony Blair's government in 1998 as the
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the
Department of Social Security. He was dropped from government after the
2001 General Election. He has since served on the
International Development Committee.
A loyal
backbencher, he resigned from the
RMT union in 2002 after it said it would only fund MPs that agreed with its policies.
Personal life
He was active in the
Anti-Apartheid Movement in his student days and is a lover of
jazz. He married Fenella Jeffers on December 22 1984 in Camden and they've a son (born November 1985) and a daughter (born December 1987).
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