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Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP

Rt. Hon Kevin Barron MP (Lab, Rother Valley) - Chair, Health Select Committee

Kevin Barron has been a Labour MP for Rother Valley since 1983. In 1985 Kevin was made a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, a position he held until the 1987 General Election. Kinnock gave Barron a frontbench job in 1988 as an opposition spokesman on Energy until 1992. John Smith returned him to the front bench as a spokesman on Employment. After Smith's death, Tony Blair moved Barron to speak on Health matters.

Kevin has been a Member of the General Medical Council since 1999, and was made a Privy Councillor in 2001. He was made Chairman of the influential Health Select Committee after the 2005 General Election. He is also a Member of the Standards and Privileges committee and a Member of the Liaison Committee.

 
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