BYRNE, Liam Rt Hon

Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill (revised boundary) since 6 May 2010, for Birmingham Hodge Hill 15 July 2004 by-election to 2010. Committees Member, European Scrutiny Select Committee 2005-10, Member, European Standing B 2005-06. Political Career: Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since January 2011; Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office October 2010 - January 2011; Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2009-10; Chair, Council of Regional Ministers 2008-10; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 2008-09; Minister of State, HM Treasury 2008; Minister for the West Midlands 2007-08; Minister of State for Borders and Immigration at the Home Office 2006-08; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Services at the Department of Health 2005-06. Special political interests Anti-social behaviour, drugs, social policy, welfare reform, youth policy. Profession/Trade: e-Government solutions 2000-04; N M Rothschild 1997-99; Anderson Consulting 1993-97. Education: Manchester University 1989-92; elected leader of the Students Union; Harvard Business School Fulbright Scholar 1999-2000. Author of: A Common Place (2007); Why Labour Won: Lessons from 2005 (2005); The Lefts Agenda for Science (2004); The Fate Were In (2003); A Chance to Serve; Powered by Politics: Reforming Parties from the Inside; Power to the People, Next Steps for New Labour. Co-editor of: Re-inventing Government Again (2004); Britain in 2020 (forethought 2003); New Strategies for Full Employment (2001); Information Age Government (1998); Local Government Transformed (1996). Married with three children.