Veronica Hardstaff

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Veronica Hardstaff
Member of the European Parliament
for Lincolnshire and Humberside South
In office
9 June 1994   10 June 1999

In 2002, Hardstaff was elected to Sheffield City Council for a second term, from Walkley ward. In May 2005 she was appointed to the cabinet of Sheffield as member for Children's Services, responsible both for education and for social services to children. She supported plans to bring in a City Academy to replace an existing secondary school, sponsored by a Christian educational charity; she also defended the use of the Private Finance Initiative as a pragmatic way of supporting investment. She left the Sheffield cabinet in May 2006 and in May 2007 was defeated in her re-election bid in Walkley. She stood again in Walkley ward in 2008, but was defeated. At the same election Hardstaff's brother, Chris Tutt, was re-elected to Sheffield City Council, in Mosborough ward, for the Liberal Democrats.

Personal life

She married in 1964 and had a son and daughter, but divorced in 1977, retaining her married name. Since 2007 she has been married to Rev. Canon Alan Billings, the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire, and Deputy Leader from 1980-86 of Sheffield City Council.

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References

  1. The Times Guide to the House of Commons April 1992. London: Times Books. 1992. p. 201. ISBN   0-7230-0497-8.
  2. Letters, New Statesman, 3 April 1998.
  3. Mike Phipps, "Euro carve-up dumps left", Labour Left Briefing, November 1998.
European Parliament
Preceded by Member of European Parliament for
Lincolnshire and Humberside South

19941999
Constituency abolished