Hugh Bayley

Hugh Bayley (born 9 January 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 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 7 May 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. He is Chair and founding member of the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group, Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and chairs the Economics and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a Chairman of Public Bill Committees.

He is a loyal backbencher rarely voting against his party^[1].

Personal life

He was active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement in his student days and is a lover of jazz. On 22 December 1984 in Camden, he married Fenella Jeffers from St Kitts. They have a son (born November 1985) and a daughter (born December 1987).

References

External links

• official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Hugh Bayley MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Hugh Bayley MP
• BBC Politics page

News items

• Terrys closure in April 2004