Career
He went to the Methodist College Belfast grammar school on Malone Road in Belfast. He worked for Her Majesty Customs and Excise in Southend-on-Sea on the design of the Value-Added Tax accounting system, then became an Information Technology consultant, working in the United States of America, Finland and Canada, and for Abbey National until 1997. Parliament
He was first elected to Parliament in the Labour victory at the 1997 general election with a 240-vote majority, when he overturned the 14,000-vote majority of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament Peter Butler.
He was returned at the 2001 election with a slightly increased majority of 1,829, but at the 2005 election he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Mark Lancaster whose 1,665 majority represented a 3.6% swing.
Local Government
Before his election to Parliament in 1997, White had been Deputy Leader of Milton Keynes Council and the Secretary of the Local Government Association Labour Group. He had joined the local council in 1987, but resigned to take his seat in Parliament.
In the local elections of May 2007, he was elected to Milton Keynes Council as a member for Stantonbury. He was re-elected in May 2011 and May 2014.
He served as Mayor of Milton Keynes May 2013-May 2014.
Other
He is a past Chair of the National Energy Foundation, Chair of United Sustainable Energy Agency and was on the Board of the Renewable Fuels Agency.
