Alistair Burt MP

Biography

Alistair Burt MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 14 May 2010.

He entered Parliament for the first time in 1983 and is the Conservative MP for north east Bedfordshire.

Alistair was educated at Bury Grammar School, and studied at St John’s College Oxford, where he was president of the university law society.

Member of Parliament for Bury North 1983 to 1997
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Environment, for Education and Science and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1985 to 1990
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State then Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1992 to 1997
Member of Parliament for north east Bedfordshire 2001 to present
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition 2002 to 2005
Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government 2005 to 2008
Opposition Assistant Chief Whip 2008 to 2010
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Foreign & Commonwealth Office May 2010 to present

Alistair became a solicitor in 1980 and served on Haringey Council in London from 1982 to1984.

Alistair and his wife Eve have 2 grown up children.

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