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Previous Career was:
1997-1999
International Policy Adviser to the World
Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre at the Institute
of Psychiatry in London, supporting the UN's Nations
for Mental Health Campaign. Visits to Ministers, health
professionals and services and speaking at conferences in Australia,
New Zealand, Hungary, Iran, USA, Bulgaria, Finland, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Lebanon, Germany and Kyrghyzstan. Involved in launching and promoting
WHO's campaign on epilepsy, Out
of the Shadows. Adviser to SANE
and its helpline, SANELINE.
1987-1997
Member of Parliament for Battersea
(Elected in June 1987 turning a Labour majority of 3,276 into a
Conservative majority of 857. The Previous Conservative MP for North
Battersea had been elected in 1931 and for South Battersea in 1959.
In 1992 the majority increased to 4,480 with the biggest swing from
Labour in England. In 1997 the seat went to Labour with one of the
two lowest swings to Labour in London)
1989-93
Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Hunt at the Department
of the Environment and the Welsh Office. Held office
in parliamentary groups for the arts, education, inner cities and
social sciences. Acted as observer for elections in Eritrea and
Namibia and participated in parliamentary delegations to Sri Lanka,
Russia, Ukraine and Lebanon, leading the last of these.
1993-96
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health,
responsible for social services, mental health, disability, children,
the elderly and for drugs and alcohol. Visited Hungary, Germany,
Netherlands, South Africa, Canada and the USA
British Minister
on the Council of Health Ministers and at Council of Europe and
other meetings.
1996-97
Minister for Transport in London and for Road Safety, including
vehicle and driving standards, cycling, motor cycling, pedestrians
and mobility issues.
1993-97
Sponsor Minister for Derby, Leicester and Nottingham
He is a Fellow
of Industry and
Parliament Trust (with Esso) and was formerly President of Conservative
Trade Unionists and British Youth
Council, Chairman of National
Council for Civil Protection and Board Member of Royal
National Theatre, the South Bank, Royal
Academy of Dancing and Battersea
Arts Centre. He was also a member of the cast of the fundraising
'Blue Revue' for 12 years.
He is currently
Board Member of the Institute
of Psychiatry, International
Institute on Special Needs Offenders and European
Men's Health Forum. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal
College of Psychiatrists.
He is Patron of the Fund
for Epilepsy and Vice Patron of APEX
Trust, Wandsworth
Symphony Orchestra and Friends of Battersea Church.
He is a Trustee
of National Aids
Trust, Epilepsy
Research Foundation, Mosaic
Clubhouse, CARA and SHARE
Community.
He is President of TORCHE
and Vice President of Parkinson's
Disease Society and Battersea Army Cadet League.
From 1982-1986
he served as Councillor on the Royal Borough of Kingston
upon Thames, where he was Chairman of Education, Governor of
Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston College and Tiffin Boys' Grammar
School and was on the executive of Greater London Arts Executive
and Vice Chairman Kingston Conservative Association.
Before 1987
he was Campaign Director for the British
Insurance Brokers Association and, before that, for the National
Federation of Small Businesses. He had previously worked for
the Party as Director of Community Affairs, National Organiser for
the Conservative Trade Unionists and the Federation of Conservative
Students and was Election Agent in Harborough in 1970. When he left
University he was Tutor at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
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