TWIGG, Stephen

Member for Liverpool West Derby since 2010, for Enfield Southgate 1997-2005. Committees: Member, Select Committee on Education and Employment 1999-2001; Member, Select Committee on Education and Employment (Employment Sub-Committee) 1999-2001; Member, Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons 1998-2000. Political career: Shadow Secretary of State for Education since 2011; Shadow Minister for Foreign Commonwealth Office 2010-11; Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills 2004-05; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills 2002-04; Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office 2001-02; London Borough of Islington Council: Councillor 1992-97, Deputy Leader 1996, Chief Whip 1994-96. Special political interests: Education, electoral reform, local and regional government, foreign affairs, Cyprus, Israel. Education: Oxford University, politics and economics. Affiliations: Chair of the Liverpool domestic violence charity Chrysalis; member of the shopworkers trade union Usdaw. b: 1966 Enfield.