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HUGH BAYLEY MP, City of York Constituency

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Date of birth:    9.1.52

Education:

B.Sc.  University of Bristol
B.Phil.  University of York

Personal:   

Married Fenella Jeffers; two children: Benjamin (16) and Eleanor (14),  both attend Fulford Comprehensive School, York

Work history:

NALGO district officer (1975 - 77); NALGO national officer (1977 - 1982); set up and ran International Broadcasting Trust (1982 - 86); lecturer in Social Policy and later research fellow in Health Economics at University of York (1986 - 1992)

Political history:

Camden Councillor (1980 - 86); founder-secretary London Labour Co-ordinating Committee (1982); elected MP for York (1992); member Health Select Committee (1992 - 1997); member of standing committees looking at Railway, Sunday Trading, Pensions and Finance Bills; formerly chair Parliamentary Labour Party Sub-committee on Tourism, secretary PLP Foreign Affairs Committee, chair All-Party Group on Overseas Development, member UK Parliament’s delegation to North Atlantic Assembly.

Re-elected for City of York on 1 May 1997 with a majority of 20,523 - polling third highest vote of any MP.  Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Health May 1997 - January 1999.  Appointed Junior Minister at the Department of Social Security, January 1999.

Re-elected June 2001.  Member Commons Select Committee on International Development, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and appointed by Prime Minister as government delegate to Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.  Founder member of All Party Africa Group.

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