Clive Betts
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Clive Betts MP |
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| Chairman of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee | |
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Assumed office 10 June 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Phyllis Starkey |
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Member of Parliament for Sheffield South East Sheffield Attercliffe (1992–2010) |
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Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Patrick Duffy |
| Majority | 12,311 (29.5%) |
| Leader of Sheffield City Council | |
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In office 1987–1992 |
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| Preceded by | David Blunkett |
| Succeeded by | Mike Bower |
| Personal details | |
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13 January 1950 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Domestic partner | James Thomas |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Website |
clivebetts.com parliament..clive-betts |
Clive James Charles Betts (born 13 January 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 to 2010, when he became Member of Parliament for Sheffield South East.
Born in 1950 in Sheffield, Betts was educated at the Longley School in Sheffield, King Edward VII School, Sheffield and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a BA in Economics and Politics.
He joined the Labour Party in 1969 and joined the Trades Union Congress in 1971 as an economist. In 1973 he was appointed as an economist with Derbyshire County Council, and moved to the South Yorkshire County Council in 1974.
In October 1974 he stood for election to the House of Commons in the safe Conservative seat of Sheffield Hallam, being defeated by the incumbent John Osborn. At the subsequent general election he fought the safe Conservative seat of Louth against the sitting MP Michael Brotherton and lost.
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