Barry John Sheerman (born 17 August1940, Middlesex) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour and Co-operative member of Parliament for Huddersfield, and was first elected in 1979. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Middlesex as a traditional county before 1888. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... This article is about the British political party. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Huddersfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...
Before entering parliament, Sheerman was a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea 1966-79. He served as a member of Labour's frontbench team for many years, then was a high-profile chair of the Education and Skills select committee. The University of Wales, Swansea was founded in 1920 as University College, Swansea, the fourth college of the University of Wales, following the report of the Haldane Commission into University Education in Wales. ... In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together. ... A Select Committee of the British Parliament is a committee made up of a small number of members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues. ...
Barry John Sheerman (born 17 August1940, Middlesex) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
Sheerman unsuccessfully contested Taunton in the February 1974 election, and became the MP for Huddersfield East from 1979-1983 and for Huddersfield since the United Kingdom general election, 1983.
BarrySheerman married Pamela Elizabeth Brenchley in 1965 with whom he has one son and three daughters.
BarrySheerman, one of the things that your committee is examining is the question of how special educational needs are defined, is that because you feel the law that, as I've just quoted it, is out of date?
But part of the problem, BarrySheerman, surely is that in the 30 years since Baroness Warnock had her committee and looked at this things have changed drastically and we've got to look at who should be included now in that special needs category if indeed there should be one.
Well I think if you were listening to BarrySheerman earlier he will have explained that this is the most locally determined set of arrangements that we've got in education and therefore the variation is entirely down to the fact that different local authorities take a different approach, albeit within a national framework.
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