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David George Hanson PC (born
July 5,
1957)
British politician. He is the
Labour Member of Parliament for
Delyn and is the
Minister of State for
Justice.
Background
David Hanson was born in
Liverpool,
Merseyside, the son of a
forklift truck driver and wages clerk and was educated at the Verdin
Comprehensive School (now called
Verdin High School
, and known as Winsford Verdin Grammar School before 1970) on
Grange Lane in
Winsford,
Cheshire and the
University of Hull where he received a
BA in 1978 and a
CertEd in 1980, whilst in
Hull he was the vice president of the university
Students' union. He began his career with the
Cooperative Society in 1980 as a trainee
manager, becoming a manager in
Plymouth in 1981 until he joined
Spastics Society in 1982. He left the
Spastics Society in 1989 when he was appointed as a director at the Society for the prevention of
Solvent Abuse.
He married Margaret Rose Mitchell, who has also been a politician in Vale Royal. She was narrowly defeated at the
1999 Eddisbury By-election.
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Political career
He was elected as a councillor to the
Vale Royal Borough Council in 1983 becoming the Labour group and council leader in 1989 until 1991 when he stood down to fight delyn at the 1992 election. He was also elected as a councillor to the
Northwich Town Council in 1987 and also led the Labour group there in 1989 for a year, he left the Town Council in 1991.
He unsuccessfully contested
Eddisbury at the
1983 General Election where he was defeated by the sitting
Conservative MP
Alastair Goodlad by some 14,846 votes. In
1984 he contested the West
Cheshire seat for the
European Parliament but was again unsuccessful. He contested
Delyn in
Wales at the
1987 General Election but was defeated by the Tory
Keith Raffan by 1,224 votes. It proved third time lucky for Hanson when he was elected to the
House of Commons at the
1992 General Election when, following Raffan's retirement, he won the
Clwyd seat at Delyn by 2,039 and has remained the MP there since. He made his
maiden speech on
May 6,
1992.
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In parliament he was a member of the
Welsh affairs select committee from
1992 until he joined the public accounts committee in 1996. He became the
Parliamentary Private Secretary PPS to the
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alistair Darling in 1997 and became a member of the
Tony Blair government in his first reshuffle in 1998 when he was appointed as an
Assistant Government Whip. He was promoted in 1999 on his appointment as the
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the
Wales Office. Following the
2001 General Election he became the PPS to
Prime Minister Blair. He has served as the
Minister of State at the
Northern Ireland Office from the
2005 General Election until
May 8th 2007, when the
Northern Ireland Assembly was restored after its period of suspension. On
9th May 2007, he was appointed
Minister of State at the new
Ministry of Justice..
On
21 February 2007, his approval to the
Privy Council was announced.
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