Sylvia Heal
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The Right Honourable Sylvia Heal |
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| First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means | |
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In office 23 October 2000 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Martin |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Evans |
| Member of Parliament for Halesowen and Rowley Regis |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | James Morris |
| Member of Parliament for Mid Staffordshire |
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In office 23 March 1990 – 16 March 1992 |
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| Preceded by | John Heddle |
| Succeeded by | Michael Fabricant |
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20 July 1942 Shotton, Flintshire, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Keith Heal |
| Relations | Ann Keen, Alan Keen |
| Alma mater | Swansea University |
Sylvia Lloyd Heal (born 20 July 1942) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halesowen and Rowley Regis from 1997 to 2010, having previously been the MP for Mid Staffordshire from 1990 to 1992. She served as the First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.
Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes, she was educated at the Elfed Secondary Modern School (now Elfed High School) on Mill Lane in Buckley, the Coleg Harlech, and at Swansea University, where she was awarded a BSc in Economics in 1968.
She worked as a medical records clerk at the Chester Royal Infirmary for six years from 1957. In 1968 she was appointed as a social worker with the Department of Employment for two years. For ten years from 1980 she worked as a social worker within a drug rehabilitation centre. During her parliamentary interregnum she worked as a young carers officer with the National Carers Association from 1992-7.
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