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Biography

Labour's Member of Parliament for Stourbridge:
Lynda Waltho MP

  • Born 22.05.1960 London
  • Married, Two children
  • Member of GMB
  • Special interests include education, childcare and the economy
  • Enjoys walking, reading, listening to music and watching films

Lynda studied economics and geography at Keele University and qualified as a teacher at the University of Central England in 1981. She joined the Labour Party in 1976 and worked as a teacher in the West Midlands between 1981 and 1993.

In 1995 she became an aide to Labour MEP Simon Murphy before working as a Political Assistant to Sylvia Heal MP between 1997 and 2001. She then worked as a Labour Party Regional Officer for three years before becoming Principal Advisor to Neena Gill MEP in 2004.

She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge in May 2005. She is Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Hanson MP, Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, and sits on the Children, Schools and Skills Select Committee. She is also a member of a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups on Chair APG Alcohol Misuse, Animal Welfare and Libraries, Literacy and Information Management, and is also Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heart Disease and Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Waterways Group.

2005 General Election result:

  VOTES   %
Lab 17,089 40.97
Tory 16,682 40.00
LD 6,850 16.42
Oths 1,087 2.61
Total 41,708 Majority 407 (0.98 %)
  Present holder: Lab

Lynda receives a valentine from health workers stop smoking lobby
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|Amblecote Primary pose with their MP at the opening of the new school extension|Douglas Alexander MP and Lynda|Lynda and her sons join the Stourbridge Ramblers as they explore hidden Stourbridge|Lynda and Ian Pearson at St Andrews Community Hub|Lynda and Sylvia Heal MP meet with Ken Strike chair of the Dudley osteoporosis group at the Commons|Lynda at Amblecote Dental Practice presenting IiP award|Lynda at Art Exhibit|Lynda at St Stephens gate House of Commons|Lynda at the launch of the GMB women's charter|Lynda celebrating carers week|Lynda celebrating the Humaara Project|Lynda celebrating with Parents and Pupils after the Adjudicator's decision on Beauty Bank School|Lynda checks the Christmas 6am postal collection|Lynda discusses the 2006 budget and its implications for Stourbridge with GB|Lynda discusses the budget with Gordon Brown|Lynda gives the green light to the Parry People Mover|Lynda joins the campaign for free 'hole in the wall' cash withdrawals|Lynda joins the campaign to make poverty history with Churches Together|Lynda keeps fit with the Age Concern team|Lynda lobbies Gordon Brown|Lynda meets with residents at Hadcroft Road to discuss standards of Council Cleaning|Lynda on College Green during a media interview|Lynda on her marks for the British Heart Foundation|Lynda opens Tanhouse Gardens|Lynda patron at the Orchard Project in Lye launching the new story sack initiative|Lynda poses for the press at Wollaston Post Office on the launch of their international currency service|Lynda presents IiP award to Amblecote Dental Practice|Lynda presents special learning award at Stourbridge College|Lynda promotes road safety to the toddlers at Amblecote Primary|Lynda receives a briefing as to the issues facing Stourbridge manufacturer Zeus|Lynda receives a valentine from health workers stop smoking lobby|Lynda supporting Black Country’s bid for 50 million of the Big Lottery Fund’s Living Landmarks|Lynda takes to her wheels in support of the British Heart Foundation|Lynda views the high tech cylinder head castings produced at Caparo (formerly Zeus Aluminium) Wollaston Road|Lynda visiting the trainee education programme at B and Q|Lynda visits Blowzone one of Stourbridge's craft companies|Lynda visits Stourbridge Ambulance station|Lynda visits the action heart facility at Russells Hall|Lynda visits the Castle and Crystal Credit Union|Lynda visits the West Midlands Ambulance Operations Centre on the Waterfront|Lynda Waltho MP, Russell Eden and ladies from Stourbug getting ready to ‘shoot off’ to Stratford!|Lynda Waltho with Age Concern Dudley|Lynda Waltho with members of Age Concern Stourbridge|Lynda Waltho with shoppers at Barnardos|Lynda with Ed Balls MP at William Hackett Chains|Lynda with Gordon Brown|Lynda with Husband Steve take the Parry People Mover to Town|Lynda with Ian Austin MP opening cycle Route 54|Lynda with Ian Austin MP present objections to Dudley School closure plans|Lynda with leading business women|Lynda with Martin Hird and Neena Gill MEP at a GMB political forum|Lynda with Mary Stevens Croquet Club|Lynda with Mayor and Mayoress look to the next hundred years with the staff old and new at Stourbridge Library|Lynda with other members of the Parliamentary Waterways Group explore the Olympic site|Lynda with pupils at the launch of the Keep Beauty Bank open campaign|Lynda with St George's Day ASDA shopers|Lynda With Stourbridge Royal British Legion|Lynda with the gang at Side by Side theatre group|Lynda with the Minister of State for Public Health|Lynda with Tony Blair|Lynda with TV's Claudia Winkelman to promote Join Up Education Challenge|Lynda with veterans|Lynda with volunteers in Lye to help spring clean local streets.|Lynda with West Midlands Police|Lynda with youngsters from the Groundwork Black Country Conservation team|Lynda's team celebrate the opening of the new constituency offices by Sylvia Heal MP|Meeting with delegation from PCS lobby|Mr and Mrs Hart show Lynda the issues facing people with disablities in Stourbridge|The Dudley MPs meet with Director of Nursing Ann Close|The Dudley MPs promote Dudley's investment opportunities to MP Jacqui Smith