Debbie Abrahams
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Debbie Abrahams MP |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | |
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Assumed office 27 June 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Shadowing |
Stephen Crabb Damian Green |
| Preceded by | Owen Smith |
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Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth |
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Assumed office 13 January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Phil Woolas |
| Majority | 6,002 (13.5%) |
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15 September 1960 Sheffield, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | John Abrahams |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
University of Salford University of Liverpool |
| Website |
Official website Commons website |
Deborah Angela Elspeth Abrahams (born 15 September 1960) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency since a by-election in January 2011. Her previous career was as a public health consultant.
Abrahams was born in Sheffield, the daughter of a dentist and his wife. She studied biochemistry and physiology at the University of Salford, and her early employment was as a community worker for a charity in Wythenshawe in south Manchester, where she set up job training programmes for teenagers. She later studied for a master's degree at the University of Liverpool. Abrahams was head of healthy cities for Knowsley and served on the board of Bury and Rochdale Health Authority.
In 2002 Abrahams was appointed chair of Rochdale Primary Care Trust. From 2006 to 2010 she was Director of the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium at the University of Liverpool. She married John Abrahams, a former captain of Lancashire County cricket team, in the late 1980s. They have two daughters.
She resigned from the Chair of Rochdale Primary Care Trust in 2007 over the use of private health companies in the National Health Service, which she said was "destroying the NHS". She then joined the Labour Party, declaring that she wanted "to challenge health policy at a local and national level to ensure that it reflects [the] core values" of the NHS. She was appointed by Simon Danczuk, then Labour candidate for Rochdale, as his advisor on health, and she stood for Rochdale Borough Council in Milnrow and Newhey ward in the 2008 local elections. She criticised the local council in Rochdale for failing to address health inequalities in Rochdale.
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