Members Of Parliament in Halliwell, Bolton, Greater Manchester

MPs: Julie Hilling MP; Paul Nuttall MEP;

Bolton West (House of Commons)

Ms Julie Hilling MP (Labour)

Surgery: The Old Surgery
108 Market Street
Westhoughton
Bolton
BL5 3AZ

Surgery Tel: 01942 813 468

MP Since - 2010 Majority - 92 Born - 1959.
Education - Nottingham University.

Previous Occupation - Senior Regional Organiser, Transport and Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA). Community and Youth Work Manager, Wigan Council.

Personal Overview - Experienced local government and union officer who has lived in her new constituency for over 25 years. She was selected following a Labour Party commitment to choose a woman as a replacement for the outgoing Ruth Kelly who decided to stand down from Parliament in 2010. A controversial figure Kelly bequeathed a marginal seat to Hilling and she did well in turn to fend off by one of the smallest margins the Conservative challenge. Bolton remains a mixed area politically and the Conservatives' Tom Sackville was the MP for the area during the Thatcher/Major years. Hilling has strong local credentials and will need to develop them further if she is to ensure her ongoing Commons tenure.

Political History - Former Vice-Chairman, Bolton West Constituency Labour Party. Member for Bolton West (2010-). Member of the Transport Select Committee (2010-12). Member of the Standards & Privileges Select Committee (2011-12).

Characteristics - Originally raised in Leighton Buzzard.

Business Tel: 020 7219 3000

Email: julie.hilling.mp@parliament.uk

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Interests: Health,Youth Issues,Trade Unions,Local Government

Commitee membership

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ageing and Older People (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children (Member)
East-West Rail Group (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Group (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education for All (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Group for High Speed Rail (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia (Member)
Libraries Group (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Rail in the North Group (Chairman)
All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work (Member)
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs (Chairman)

North West (European Parliament)

Mr Paul Nuttall MEP (UK Independence)

MEP Since - 2009 Born - 1977. Married.
Education - Savio High School. Hugh Baird College. North Lincolnshire College (HND Sport Science) Edge Hill University BA (Hons) History. Liverpool Hope University, MA History. City and Guilds 7307 Teaching Qualification. Certificate in Education. Liverpool Hope University, PhD History (Pending).

Previous Occupation - History Lecturer at Hugh Baird College (2002-06). Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University (2003-06). European Parliamentary Assistant and Political Advisor to John Whittaker MEP (2006-08).

Personal Overview - Effectively replaced former UKIP MEP John Whittaker at the 2009 European Elections who he had worked for as an assistant at the Parliament for several years. Has an academic background as a lecturer in the Merseyside area. Politically, he has achieved relatively rapid promotion within the party in recent years, becoming Party Chairman in 2008. In terms of European politics, he has gained experience through his work for John Whittaker MEP, he has also acted as a political consultant to Godfrey Bloom MEP and has been Editor of the Bulletin from Brussels Magazine. As well as opposing Britain's membership of the European Union, his political interests include campaigning against political correctness as well as campaigning to save post offices and British pubs.

Political History - Joined UKIP (2004). General Election candidate for Bootle (2005). Candidate for Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council (2006,07,08). Chairman of South Sefton UKIP Branch (2005-2006). Secretary of Young Independence (2008-). Political Consultant to Godfrey
Bloom MEP (2008-09). Chairman of UKIP (2008-). MEP North West Region (2009-). Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (2009-). Substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education (2009-11).

Other Information - Member of the Executive Council of the United Commonwealth Society (2007-). Member of the Campaign Against Political Correctness (2006-). Member of the Freedom Association.
Intergroups - N/a.

Email: paul.nuttall@europarl.europa.eu