The Right Honourable Alistair Burt MP |
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![]() Burt in 2010
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Minister of State for Care and Support | |
In office 11 May 2015 – 15 July 2016 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Norman Lamb |
Succeeded by | Philip Dunne |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
In office 13 May 2010 – 7 October 2013 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Ivan Lewis |
Succeeded by | Hugh Robertson |
Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party for Development |
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In office January 2008 – 13 May 2010 |
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Minister of State for Social Security (Minister for the Disabled) | |
In office 5 July 1995 – 4 May 1997 |
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Prime Minister | John Major |
Preceded by | William Hague |
Succeeded by | Paul Boateng |
Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire |
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Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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Preceded by | Nicholas Lyell |
Majority | 18,942 (34.1%) |
Member of Parliament for Bury North |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997 |
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Preceded by | Constituency Created |
Succeeded by | David Chaytor |
Personal details | |
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Alistair James Hendrie Burt 25 May 1955 Bury, Lancashire, England |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Eve Alexandra Twite |
Residence | Wootton, Bedfordshire |
Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
Website |
Official website parliament..alistair-burt |
Alistair James Hendrie Burt (born 25 May 1955) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Bedfordshire since 2001 and served as the MP for his native Bury North in Greater Manchester from 1983 until 1997. Burt was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State then Minister of State at the Department of Social Security from 1992 to 1997, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2010 to 2013. Burt was Minister of State at the Department of Health from May 2015 to July 2016.
Alistair Burt was born in Bury, then in Lancashire its historic county, and was educated at the Bury Grammar School, where he was appointed Head Boy in 1973, and St John's College, Oxford where he was elected president of the Oxford Law Society in 1976 and graduated with a degree in jurisprudence law in 1977. He became an articled clerk with Slater Heelis & Co. of Manchester in 1978, becoming a solicitor with Watts Vallence & Vallence in 1980 where he remained until 1983.