Stephen Byers
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The Right Honourable Stephen Byers |
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| Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions | |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 29 May 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Prescott (Environment, Transport and the Regions) |
| Succeeded by | Alistair Darling (Transport) |
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Secretary of State for Trade and Industry President of the Board of Trade |
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In office 23 December 1998 – 8 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Peter Mandelson |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Hewitt |
| Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 18 July 1998 – 23 December 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Alistair Darling |
| Succeeded by | Alan Milburn |
| Minister of State for Schools | |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 18 July 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Eric Forth |
| Succeeded by | Estelle Morris |
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Member of Parliament for North Tyneside Wallsend (1992–1997) |
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In office 10 April 1992 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ted Garrett |
| Succeeded by | Mary Glindon |
| Personal details | |
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Stephen John Byers 13 April 1953 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Liverpool John Moores University |
Stephen John Byers (born 13 April 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tyneside from 1997 to 2010; in the previous parliament, from 1992, he represented Wallsend. He did not contest the 2010 general election.
During Byers' ministerial career, he was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions in the Cabinet.
Stephen Byers was born in Wolverhampton. He was educated at Wymondham College a state-run day and boarding school, Chester City Grammar School and the Chester College of Further Education. He then gained a law degree at Liverpool John Moores University and became a law lecturer at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) in 1977, a post he retained until his election as a Member of Parliament in 1992.
Byers was elected as a councillor to the North Tyneside District Council in 1980 and was its deputy leader from 1985 until he became an MP in 1992. Reportedly a former supporter of the entryist Militant group once active within the Labour Party – a claim which he says is untrue – Byers had publicly rejected the group's approach by 1986. In the 1983 general election, he contested the Conservative stronghold seat of Hexham, finishing in third place and some 14,000 votes behind the former Cabinet minister Geoffrey Rippon. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1992 general election in Wallsend, a Labour stronghold, following the retirement of Ted Garrett, and secured a majority of 19,470.
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