David Chaytor
| David Chaytor | |
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Member of Parliament for Bury North |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Alistair Burt |
| Succeeded by | David Nuttall |
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| Born |
3 August 1949 Bury, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
University of London Huddersfield Polytechnic University of Bradford University of Leeds |
| Profession | Former teacher |
David Michael Chaytor (born 3 August 1949) is a former British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury North from 1997 to 2010. He was the first member of Parliament to be sentenced following the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009.
On 2 June 2009, he announced that he would not be standing for Parliament at the next general election. On 3 December 2010 he pleaded guilty to charges of false accounting in relation to Parliamentary expenses claims and he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on 7 January 2011. Chaytor was released from prison on 26 May 2011 under the conditions of Home Detention Curfew.
David Chaytor was born in Bury and was educated at the East Ward Primary School and the Bury Grammar School, both in the town. He later attended the University of London where he was awarded a BA degree in 1970, Huddersfield Polytechnic, the University of Bradford, and he then qualified as a teacher in 1976 at the University of Leeds. He then returned to the University of London to finish his Masters (MPhil) degree in philosophy in 1979 and did further postgraduate work at the University of Bradford.
He started work as a college lecturer in 1973, before being appointed as the senior staff tutor at the Manchester College of Arts and Technology in 1983. In 1990, he became the Head of Continuing Education at the same institute, where he remained until his election to parliament.
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