Ministerial responsibilities

• Sport
• Gambling
• Horse racing and the Tote
• National lottery policy

Biography
Rt Hon Richard Caborn, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, was appointed Minister for Sport in June 2001. The post is at Minister of State level in the DCMS.
 
Richard is a keen amateur sportsman, playing golf, football and cricket, and led the tour to South Africa of the House of Commons cricket team in 1995.
 
He was involved in taking the World Student Games to his native Sheffield in 1991, as well as the successful bid to make Sheffield the key site in the UK Sports Institute network.
 
He served as Minister for Trade at the Department for Trade and Industry (1999-2001) and was Minister of State for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning at the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-1999).
 
He became a Privy Councillor in 1999.
 
He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 General Election, and was the Member of the European Parliament for Sheffield (1979-1984).
 
Richard was a Trade Union official at Firth Brown Sheffield and a founder member of the Parliamentary Anti-Apartheid Movement.  He was Vice President of the Sheffield Trades Council and is a member of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.
 
Born in October 1943, Richard was educated at Hurfield Comprehensive School, Sheffield, Granville College of Education and Sheffield Polytechnic.
 
He is married with two children and lives in Sheffield.
 
You can e-mail Richard Caborn at richard.caborn@culture.gsi.gov.uk