- Janet Dean
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name = Janet Dean
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constituency_MP = Burton
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majority = 1,421 (3.0%)
predecessor =Ivan Lawrence
successor =Incumbent
term_start =1 May 1997
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1949|01|28|df=yes
birth_place =Crewe ,Cheshire
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nationality = British
spouse = Alan Dean
party = Labour
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footnotes =Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean (born
28 January 1949 ) is a Britishpolitician . She is the LabourMember of Parliament (MP) for Burton inStaffordshire .cite web |url=http://www.janetdean.info/ |title=Janet Dean's Website's Homepage |accessdate=2008-05-29]Born Janet Gibson in
Crewe , she was educated at the VerdinGrammar School inWinsford .cite web |url=http://www.janetdean.info/ViewPage.cfm?Page=16363 |title=Janet Dean's Biography |accessdate=2008-05-29] On leaving school in 1965 she became aclerk atBarclays Bank , before moving to Bass Charrington in 1969. She married Alan Dean in 1968 and became a full-time mother in 1970 following the birth of the first of their two daughters. She was widowed in 1994.She was elected as a councillor to the
Staffordshire County Council in 1981 and to the East Staffordshire District Council in 1991, becoming its mayor in 1996. She was also elected to theUttoxeter Town Council in 1995. She stepped down from all three councils on her election to Westminster.She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 General Election, winning Burton from the sitting Conservative MP,
Ivan Lawrence , by 6,330 votes, and she has remained an MP since then. She made her maiden speech on30 July 1997 . [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo970730/debtext/70730-02.htm#70730-02_spnew0] In parliament she was a member of the Catering Select Committee from her election until 2005. She has been a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 1999, and since the 2005 General Election she has also been a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairmen.She is a loyal
backbencher although rebelling against the privatisation ofair traffic control in 2000, a local issue given the proximity of her constituency to theEast Midlands Airport . She is the chairperson of theAll-Party Parliamentary Group for Lupuscite web |url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/memi353.htm |title=Register of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Lupus |accessdate=2008-05-29 |publisher=UK House of Commons] – an issue close to her heart, as both her mother and husband died from it.On
20 June 2007 , she announced that she will stand down at the next general election.cite news |title=Janet Dean, MP for Burton and Uttoxeter, has announced her intention to stand down at the next General Election |url=http://www.janetdean.info/ViewPage.cfm?Page=21775 |date=16 June 2007 |accessdate=2008-05-29]References
External links
* [http://www.janetdean.info/ Janet Dean MP] official site
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-1363,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Janet Dean MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/janet_dean/burton TheyWorkForYou.com - Janet Dean MP]
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