FARRELLY, Paul

Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 2001. Committees: Member, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. Political career: Parliamentary Candidate for Chesham and Amersham 1997; Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Rugby Union Group and of the Commons and Lords RUFC; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary German Group; Vice-President, All-Party Parliamentary Japanese Group; Secretary, Hungary and Italian Groups. Special political interests: Health and elderly care, education and universities, regeneration. Profession/Trade: Corporate Finance with Barclays de Zoete Webb; Journalist with Reuters, The Independent on Sunday and Observer. Education: St Edmund Hall College, Oxford, BA (Hons), Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Languages spoken: French, German, Italian. Editor of: Hammer of the Left the Memoirs of John Golding. Affiliations: NUJ, Amicus, Unity, Co-operative Party, Socialist Education Association, Amnesty International, Greenpeace. Hobbies: Rugby, football, writing. b. 2 March 1962, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Married with three children.