Roberta Carol Blackman Woods

Biography

Roberta Blackman-Woods was re-elected MP for City of Durham in May 2010 with a majority of 3,067 votes.

Roberta Blackman-Woods MP is proud and privileged to represent her home City in Parliament. Before being elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for the City of Durham in 2005 she was a university professor in social policy and had previously served as a local councillor.

Roberta's interests in Parliament are housing, planning, international development, foreign affairs and regeneration. She chairs the Associate Parliamentary Group for Afghanistan and the All-Party Balanced and Sustainable Communities Group.

In Durham she works with local people to highlight the importance of planning and housing policies to the City, with the new unitary council to sensitively regenerate the City Centre and surrounding villages, and with the local NHS trust for the best health services for the area.

Roberta is married with one daughter.

Constituency

City of Durham

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Constituency Address

The Miners' Hall, Redhills, DURHAM, DH1 4BD.

Constituency Tel

0191 374 1915

Date of Birth

16.08.1957

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Party

Labour

Personal Website

http://www.durhamlabour.org.uk/roberta/

Westminster Address

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