David Hanson (politician)

David George Hanson is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Delyn since 1992. He was the Minister of State for Security, CounterTerrorism, Crime and Policing from 2009 to 2010. FromMay 2010 he has been the shadow police and justice minister and also Shadow Treasury Minister.

Hanson was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of Brian Hanson a forklift truck driver and Glenda Hanson a personnel records clerk, one younger sister, Helen. David was educated at Roscoe Primary School in Liverpool, Grange Primary School in Winsford and the Verdin Comprehensive School, on Grange Lane in Winsford, Cheshire and the University of Hull where he received a BA in 1978 and a CertEd in 1980, whilst in Hull he was the vice president of the university students union and a member of Hull University Labour Club. He began his career with the Cooperative Society in 1980 as a trainee manager, becoming a manager in Plymouth in 1981 until he joined Spastics Society, now Scope, in 1982. He left the Spastics Society in 1989 when he was appointed as a director at the Society for the Prevention of Solvent Abuse.

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