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Clive Betts
MP
Official portrait of Mr Clive Betts MP crop 2.jpg
Official portrait, 2019
Chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee [lower-alpha 1]
Assumed office
10 June 2010
Political offices
Preceded by Leader of Sheffield City Council
1987–1992
Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe
19922010
Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Sheffield South East
2010–present
Incumbent