Paul Holmes
Paul Holmes was elected chairman of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party in 2005 and is Shadow Minister for Housing.
The first in his family to go to university, he got a history degree from the University of York in 1978 and then went to the University of Sheffield to do a post-graduate Certificate in Education. On qualification as a History Teacher in 1979, he taught at Chesterfield Boys School, before moving to teach at Buxton Community School in September 1984. For many years at Buxton Community School Paul was Head of Sixth Form.
His Parliamentary interests are education, disability, human rights and international development. In the 2001-2005 Parliament Paul was a member of the Education and Skills Select Committee, the Lib Dem spokesperson for people with disabilities, and a Friend of UNICEF in the Commons. Re-elected in the General Election is 2005, Paul continues on the Education and Skills Select Committee, and in 2007 was appointed Shadow Minister for Housing.
