FIELD, Rt Hon Frank

Member for Birkenhead (revised boundary) since 6 May 2010, for Birkenhead 1979-2010. Committees: Member, Public Accounts Select Committee 2002-05; Chair, Social Security Select Committee 1990-97. Political career: Leads Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances since 2010; Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1997-98; Opposition Spokesperson for Education 1980-81; Hounslow Councillor 1964-68; Parliamentary Candidate for Buckinghamshire South 1966; former Frontbench Spokesperson on Education and Social Security. Special political interests: Income distribution, taxation, social security, industrial policy. Profession/Trade: Director, Child Poverty Action Group. Education: Liverpool University, Honorary Doctor of Law 2006 for work in social and pension reform; University of Warwick, Honorary Doctor of Law; University of Southampton, Doctorate of Science; Hull University; St Clements Danes Grammar School. Affiliations: Director, Low Pay Unit 1974-80; Director, Child Poverty Action Group 1969-79. Author of: Saints and Heroes (2010); Attlees Great Contemporaries (2009); The Ethic Of Respect: A Left Wing Cause (2006); The Centre for Independent Studies, St Leonards (New South Wales, Australia) (2006); Neighbours from Hell: the Politics of Behaviour (2003); Reflections on Welfare Reform, Social Market Foundation (1998); Reforming Welfare, Social Market Foundation (1997); How to Pay for the Future: Establishing a Stakeholders Welfare (1996); Making Welfare Work: Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium (1995); Beyond Punishment: Hard Choices on the Road to Full Employment (1994); Europe Isnt Working (1994); An Agenda for Britain (1993); Losing Out: The Emergence of Britains Underclass (1989). b. 16 July 1942, London.