WEBB, Prof Steven

Member for Thornbury and Yate since 6 May 2010, for Northavon 1997-2010. Political career: Minister of State for Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions since 2010; LD Spokesperson on Work and Pensions 2009-10; LD Spokesperson on Climate Change and Energy 2008-09; LD Environment, Energy, Food and Rural Affairs Spokesman 2007-08; LD Manifesto Chair 2006-07; LD Health Spokesperson 2005-06; LD Social Security / Work and Pensions Spokesperson 1999-2005; Member, LD Social Security and Welfare Team 1997-2005; Specialist Adviser to Social Security Select Committee 1991-96; Member of Commission on Social Justice 1992-94. Special political interests: Online political engagement, social security and welfare issues, social policy, tax and benefits, overseas aid and development, Third-World debt. Profession/Trade: Economist/Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath. Education: Hertford College, Oxford, First Class Hons PPE; Dartmouth High School, Birmingham. Affiliations: Amnesty International, World Development Movement. Author of: Inequality in the UK (1997); For Richer, For Poorer (IFS Commentary No. 42, 1994); Beyond the Welfare State (1990). Hobbies: Football, West Bromwich Albion, most spectator sports, reading, travel, internet, computing. b. 18 July 1965, Birmingham. Married with two children.