HEALD, Oliver

Member for North East Hertfordshire since 1992. Committees:Member, Ecclesiastical Committee since 2010; Member, Standards and Privileges Select Committee since 2010; Member, Committee on Standards in Public Life since 2008; Member, Work and Pensions Select Committee since 2007; Member, House of Commons Commission 2003-05; Chair, Audit Committee; Member, Modernisation Committee 2003-05; Member, Administration Select Committee 1998-2000; Member, Select Committee on Employment 1992-94; Vice-Chair, Conservative Employment Committee. Political career: Shadow Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster 2005-07; Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs 2004-07;  Shadow Leader of the House 2003-05; Shadow Minister for Work (in Shadow Cabinet) 2002-03; Shadow Health Minister 2001-02; Shadow Home Affairs Spokesman 2000-01; Opposition Whip 1997-2000; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, DSS 1995-97; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon William Waldegrave, Minister for Agriculture Sept 1994; PPS to Rt Hon Peter Lloyd MP, Minister for State at the Home Office 1994; Eastern Area Executive Committee of National Union 1991; Parliamentary Candidate for Southwark and Bermondsey 1987; Chair, North Hertfordshire Conservative Association 1984-86. Special political interests: Industrial relations, home affairs, pensions. Profession/Trade: Barrister (not currently practising). Education: Reading School; Pembroke College, Cambridge, MA Law. Affiliations: Hertfordshire Conservation Society; Save the Children Fund. Hobbies: Sports, family.
b. 15 December 1954, Reading. Married with three children.