Alistair Burt

Alistair James Hendrie Burt is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire since 2001 and served as the MP for his native Bury North in Greater Manchester from 1983 until 1997. Burt was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State then Minister of State at the Department of Social Security from 1992 to 1997, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2010 to 2013. Alistair was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in May 2015.

Alistair Burt was born in Bury, then in Lancashire its historic county, and was educated at the Bury Grammar School, where he was appointed Head Boy in 1973, and St Johns College, Oxford where he was elected president of the Oxford Law Society in 1976 and graduated with a degree in jurisprudence law in 1977. He became an articled clerk with Slater Heelis amp Co. of Manchester in 1978, becoming a solicitor with Watts Vallence amp Vallence in 1980 where he remained until 1983.

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