MPs: David Crausby MP; Yasmin Qureshi MP; Julie Hilling MP; Paul Nuttall MEP;
Bolton North East (House of Commons)
Mr David Crausby MP (Labour)
Surgery: Bolton Town Hall
Bolton
Surgery Tel: 01204 303340
MP Since - 1997 Majority - 4,084 Born - 17/06/1946, Married, 2 sons.
Education - Derby Grammar School, Bury Technical College.
Previous Occupation - Engineer, AEEU Convener.
Personal Overview - Member with an Old Labour style grounding as an union activist for the AEU. A long term Councillor for Bury, who has been improving his local Bolton roots by serving on the Bolton North Police Consultative Committee. Spent his first term pursuing local interests - the promotion of the local college's case for university status, and efforts to improve the manufacturing base in Bolton - a change in course is not expected. Typically quiet backbencher who is loyal to the Government.
Political History - Councillor, Bury District Council (1979-92), Member for Bolton North East (1997-). Member of the Administration Select Committee (1999-2001). Member of the Social Security Select Committee (2000-01). Member of the Defence Select Committee (2001-10). Joint Vice-Chairman, Engineering All Party Group. Chairman of the North West Committee (2009-10).
Characteristics - Largely unknown quantity who has a political upbringing in the Trades Unions, and Local Government. Trustee of employer's pension scheme, and former member of local Police consultative committee. Age upon entering the Commons would suggest time only for a backbench role.
Business Tel: 020 7219 4092
Email: david.crausby.mp@parliament.uk
Mr David Crausby MP (Labour) on Twitter
The Bolton News has no responsibility or control over the content on external blogging sites, but you can contact us if you have a complaint.
Interests: Pensions,Housing,Engineering Industry,Trade Unions,Local Government
Commitee membership
- Britain-Bermuda Group (Secretary)
- British-Canadian Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Cayman Islands (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Channel Islands Group (Secretary)
- All-Party Parliamentary Cleaning and Hygiene Group (Treasurer)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fairs and Showgrounds (Secretary)
- United Kingdom Falkland Islands Group (Vice Chairman)
- All-Party Parliamentary Film Industry Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Gibraltar Group (Vice Chairman)
- All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (Member)
- British-Liechtenstein Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Mauritius Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Non-Profit Making Members' Clubs (Member)
- British-Montserrat Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Oman (Member)
- United Kingdom Overseas Territories Group (Member)
- Philately (Associate Group) (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Reserve Forces and Cadets (Treasurer)
- St George's Day Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (Treasurer)
- United Kingdom-United Arab Emirates Group (Member)
- British Virgin Islands Group (Vice Chairman)
- All-Party Parliamentary Zoos and Aquariums Group (Member)
Bolton South East (House of Commons)
Ms Yasmin Qureshi MP (Labour)
Surgery Tel: 01204 371202
MP Since - 2010 Majority - 8,634 Born - 05/07/1963.
Education - Bar at Law. Master in Law. Qualified as a Barrister in 1985.
Previous Occupation - Has worked for the Crown Prosecution Service as a prosecutor and for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) as Head of the Criminal Legal Section of the UN Mission in Kosovo and latterly the Director of the Department of the Department of Judicial Administration. Barrister at 2 Kings Bench Walk Chambers, London (2004-08). Barrister in Manchester practising in criminal law, Kenworthy's Chambers (2008-10).
Personal Overview - Inherited this safe Labour seat in 2010 from retiring MP Dr Brian Iddon. Born in Pakistan, she moved to the UK at the age of 9. Comes from a legal career background, working in the UK and abroad for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo where she was involved assisting in the rebuilding of their judicial system. She has also specialised in human rights and administrative law and has been a former Human Rights Advisor to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone with a remit covering civil, political, social and economic rights. She has also been active in doing voluntary work for law centres and Citizens' Advice Bureaus and is a former President of the Pakistan Club (UK).
Political History - General Election candidate for Brent East (2005). MP Bolton South East (2010-). Member of the Justice Select Committee (2010-). Member of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee (2011).
Characteristics - Former Chair of the Human Rights and Civil Liberties Working Group of the Association of Muslim Lawyers. Has been a governor of a college and several schools.
Business Tel: 020 7219 3000
Email: yasmin.qureshi.mp@parliament.uk
Ms Yasmin Qureshi MP (Labour) on Twitter
The Bolton News has no responsibility or control over the content on external blogging sites, but you can contact us if you have a complaint.
Interests: Law & Order,Education & Training,Health,Youth Issues,Human Rights
Commitee membership
- Justice Committee (Member)
- Arab League Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Guinea-Bissau (Treasurer)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Treasurer)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Local Democracy (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pakistan (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Philippines (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health (Member)
- Sudan (Associate Group) (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Thrombosis Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Governance (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Youth Hostelling Group (Member)
Bolton West (House of Commons)
Ms Julie Hilling MP (Labour)
Surgery: The Old Surgery
108 Market Street
Westhoughton
Bolton
BL5 3AZ
Surgery Tel: 01942 813 468
MP Since - 2010 Majority - 92 Born - 1959.
Education - Nottingham University.
Previous Occupation - Senior Regional Organiser, Transport and Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA). Community and Youth Work Manager, Wigan Council.
Personal Overview - Experienced local government and union officer who has lived in her new constituency for over 25 years. She was selected following a Labour Party commitment to choose a woman as a replacement for the outgoing Ruth Kelly who decided to stand down from Parliament in 2010. A controversial figure Kelly bequeathed a marginal seat to Hilling and she did well in turn to fend off by one of the smallest margins the Conservative challenge. Bolton remains a mixed area politically and the Conservatives' Tom Sackville was the MP for the area during the Thatcher/Major years. Hilling has strong local credentials and will need to develop them further if she is to ensure her ongoing Commons tenure.
Political History - Former Vice-Chairman, Bolton West Constituency Labour Party. Member for Bolton West (2010-). Member of the Transport Select Committee (2010-). Member of the Standards & Privileges Select Committee (2011-).
Characteristics - Originally raised in Leighton Buzzard.
Business Tel: 020 7219 3000
Email: julie.hilling.mp@parliament.uk
Ms Julie Hilling MP (Labour) on Twitter
The Bolton News has no responsibility or control over the content on external blogging sites, but you can contact us if you have a complaint.
Interests: Health,Youth Issues,Trade Unions,Local Government
Commitee membership
- Transport Committee (Member)
- Standards & Privileges Committee (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ageing and Older People (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education for All (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Rail in the North Group (Chairman)
- All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group (Member)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs (Member)
North West (European Parliament)
Mr Paul Nuttall MEP (UK Independence)
MEP Since - 2009 Born - 1977. Married.
Education - Savio High School. Hugh Baird College. North Lincolnshire College (HND Sport Science) Edge Hill University BA (Hons) History. Liverpool Hope University, MA History. City and Guilds 7307 Teaching Qualification. Certificate in Education. Liverpool Hope University, PhD History (Pending).
Previous Occupation - History Lecturer at Hugh Baird College (2002-06). Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University (2003-06). European Parliamentary Assistant and Political Advisor to John Whittaker MEP (2006-08).
Personal Overview - Effectively replaced former UKIP MEP John Whittaker at the 2009 European Elections who he had worked for as an assistant at the Parliament for several years. Has an academic background as a lecturer in the Merseyside area. Politically, he has achieved relatively rapid promotion within the party in recent years, becoming Party Chairman in 2008. In terms of European politics, he has gained experience through his work for John Whittaker MEP, he has also acted as a political consultant to Godfrey Bloom MEP and has been Editor of the Bulletin from Brussels Magazine. As well as opposing Britain's membership of the European Union, his political interests include campaigning against political correctness as well as campaigning to save post offices and British pubs.
Political History - Joined UKIP (2004). General Election candidate for Bootle (2005). Candidate for Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council (2006,07,08). Chairman of South Sefton UKIP Branch (2005-2006). Secretary of Young Independence (2008-). Political Consultant to Godfrey
Bloom MEP (2008-09). Chairman of UKIP (2008-). MEP North West Region (2009-). Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (2009-). Substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education (2009-11).
Other Information - Member of the Executive Council of the United Commonwealth Society (2007-). Member of the Campaign Against Political Correctness (2006-). Member of the Freedom Association.
Intergroups - N/a.
Email: paul.nuttall@europarl.europa.eu
Interests: Saving Post Offices from closure,Campaigning against Political Correctness
Commitee membership
- Environment, Public Health & Food Safety (Member)
Information supplied by Goveval. Send feedback to info@goveval.com
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
