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David Hanson (politician)

The Right Honourable
David Hanson
MP
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Shadow Minister of State, Home Office
Assumed office
7 October 2011
Leader Ed Miliband
Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
11 May 2010 – 7 October 2011
Leader Harriet Harman
Ed Miliband
Succeeded by Cathy Jamieson
Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing
In office
8 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Vernon Coaker
Succeeded by Nick Herbert
Minister of State for Justice
In office
9 May 2007 – 9 June 2009
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Preceded by Office Created
Succeeded by Maria Eagle
Minister of State for Northern Ireland
In office
11 May 2005 – 8 May 2007
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by John Spellar
Succeeded by Paul Goggins
Member of Parliament
for Delyn
Assumed office
9 April 1992
Preceded by Keith Raffan
Majority 2,930 (7.8%)
Personal details
Born (1957-07-05) 5 July 1957 (age 59)
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Margaret Hanson
Children Thomas, Amy, Alys and Daniel
Residence Flint, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Alma mater University of Hull
Website www.davidhanson.org.uk

David George Hanson (born 5 July 1957) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Delyn since 1992. He was the Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing from 2009 to 2010. From 11 May 2010 he has been the shadow police and justice minister and also Shadow Treasury Minister.

Hanson was born in Liverpool, Lancashire and is the son of Brian Hanson (deceased), a forklift truck driver and Glenda Hanson, a personnel records clerk and has a younger sister, Helen. David was educated at Roscoe Primary School in Liverpool, Grange Primary School and Verdin County Comprehensive School in Winsford, Cheshire, and the University of Hull where he received a BA in 1978 and a CertEd in 1980, whilst in Hull he was the vice president of the university students' union and a member of Hull University Labour Club. He began his career with the Cooperative Society in 1980 as a trainee manager, becoming a manager in Plymouth in 1981 until he joined Spastics Society, now Scope, in 1982. He left the Spastics Society in 1989 when he was appointed as a director at the Society for the Prevention of Solvent Abuse.


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