WRIGHT, David

Member for Telford (revised boundary) since 2010 and for Telford 2001-10. Committees: Chair, All-Party World Heritage Sites Group since 2004; Vice-Chair, All-Party Architecture and Planning Group since 2003; Member, Environmental Audit Select Committee 2001-05; Member, Administration Select Committee 2001-02; Member, Procedure Committee 2001-05; Member, Environmental Audit Select Committee 2001-04; Member, Administration Committee 2001-02. Political career: Opposition Whip 2010-11; Assistant Government Whip 2009-10; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jane Kennedy as Financial Secretary to the Treasury 2007-08; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon John Hutton as Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions 2006; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon David Miliband as Minister of Communities and local Government 2005-06; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rosie Winterton at the Department of Health 2004-05. Special political interests: Housing and regeneration, culture and heritage, poverty. Profession/Trade: Member, Chartered Institute of Housing. Education: New College, Telford; Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Degree in Humanities (1988). Affiliations: TGWU. Hobbies: Watching local football; local history. b. 22 December 1966. Married.