Frank Dobson
Frank Gordon Dobson ( born March 15, 1940 in York, England ) is a British Labour Party politician, who is since 1979 member of the House of Commons between 1997 and 1999 health ministers.
Life
Lower house deputy and opposition politicians
After the visit of Archbishop Holgate Grammar School Dobson studied economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.) from. After he was staff at the Central Electricity Generating Board and 1970-1975 Electricity Council and was involved as volunteers, such as Governor of the Argyle Primary School.
His political career began in local politics when he was 1971-1976 Member of the Council of the London Borough of Camden and its Chairman from 1973 to 1975. Subsequently, he was between 1975 and 1979 deputy secretary of the Ombudsman in the London Borough of Camden office and also in 1978 was chairman of Coram 's Field and the Harmsworth Memorial Playground.
In the general election 3 May 1979 Dobson was first elected as a Labour candidate to the House of Commons and represented the constituency where he initially Camden Holborn and St Pancras South. Since the general election of 9 June 1983, he represents the constituency of Holborn and St Pancras in the House and was last re-elected at the general election on 6 May 2010 with 46.1 percent of voters Timmer.
During his long parliamentary membership, he was initially between 1981 and 1983 spokesman for the opposition Labour Group for Education and then in the shadow cabinet of his party " Shadow health minister " before he was 1987-1989 Leader of the House in the shadow cabinet as well as coordinator of the election campaigns of the Labour Party. In the following shadow cabinets of his party, he was between 1989 and 1992 " Shadow Energy Minister ", then " Shadow Minister for the Environment ," 1993-1994 "shadow transport minister " and finally from 1993 to 1997 " Shadow Minister for London and the environment". His staff in the early 1990s was, among other things, Chris Bryant, who is also the House of Commons since 2001, Member of Parliament and the constituency of Rhondda represents.
Health Minister and candidate for mayor in London
After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of 1 May 1997 Dobson was appointed to the first cabinet of Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Minister of Health ( Secretary of State for Health ), where he remained until his replacement by Alan Milburn in October 1999.
On 4 May 2000, he joined as the official candidate of the Labour Party at the time of election to the Mayor of London, however, finished behind the independent candidate Ken Livingstone and the candidate of the Conservative Party, Steve Norris, only the third place in the first ballot.
He then became involved in numerous other committees and is a member of the administrative board of the University of York, since 2002 the Governor of the Royal Veterinary College, since 2008 member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 2008 and Governor of Coram Foundation, among others, since 2001. In the House he was between 2005 and 2008 Member of the Management Committee and heard this again since 2010 as a member.