Anne Begg

Biography

Anne Begg was re-elected MP for Aberdeen South in May 2010 with a majority of 3,506 votes.

Anne Begg was elected as the Labour MP for Aberdeen South to the House of Commons on 1st May 1997, the first permanent wheelchair user ever to be elected to Parliament. Her political interests are wide but include welfare reform, pensions, equality and broadcasting as well as issues which affect her constituency. She was also active in the debate to allow embryonic stem cell research.

A member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee since 2001, Anne also chairs debates and legislative committees in Parliament in her role as a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairmen. She chairs a number of All Party Groups - Offshore Oil and Gas, Equalities, Commercial Radio and is Secretary of the BBC Group.

Before she was elected, Anne was a Secondary school teacher of English for 19 years and in 1988 she was Disabled Scot of the Year.

Constituency

Aberdeen South

Twitter

twitter.com/annebegg

Constituency Address

Admiral Court, Poynernook Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5QX

Constituency Tel

01224 252704

Date of Birth

6 December 1955

Email

anne.begg.mp@parliament.uk

Party

Labour

Personal Website

http://www.annebegg.info/

Westminster Address

House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel

020 7219 2140

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Parties have very different approaches to getting more women into parliament

Westminster's political parties are adopting very different approaches as they try to increase the number of female MPs in parliament.

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State funding call to encourage working class politicians

Not all working class politicians would be Shameless

Potential working class politicians would be more likely to become MPs if they received funding from taxpayers encouraging them to run, a Labour MP has said.

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