Home Office Ministers and Responsibilities
Hazel Blears MP
Hazel Blears MP is Minister of State for Crime
Reduction, Policing, Community Safety and Counter-Terrorism.
She has overall responsibility for reducing crime and
the fear of crime, police policy and police reform,
community safety and anti-social behaviour, Crime and
Disorder Reduction Partnerships and the Street Crime
Initiative. She provides support to the Home Secretary
on counter-terrorism and resilience.
Hazel Blears was elected MP for Salford in May 1997.
She was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
for Public Health, on 29 May 2002, having previously
been Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health
from 11th June 2001.
Before her appointment at the Department of Health,
Ms Blears was Principal Solicitor for Manchester City
Council. She was PPS for Rt Hon Alan Milburn when he was
a Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1998
and when he was Chief Secretary, HM Treasury between
January and October 1999. Ms Blears worked as a
solicitor for Rossendale Council between 1981 and 1983
and for Wigan council between 1983 and 1985. She was a
Salford City Councillor between 1984 and 1992 and was
chair of Salford Community Health Council from 1992 to
1996.
Ms Blears was born 14 May 1956 and was educated at
Wardley Grammar School; Eccles VIth Form College; Trent
Polytechnic; Chester College of Law (BA Hons, Law)
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