Background
SHELDON, Rt. Hon. Robert Edward was born on September 13, 1923.
SHELDON, Rt. Hon. Robert Edward was born on September 13, 1923.
University of London (external graduate, Whitworth Scholar).
Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne. Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Civil Service, Treasury and Machinery of Government, 1970-1974. Chairman, Northwest Group of Labour MPs, 1970-1974.
Chairman General Sub-Cttee. of Expenditure Committee, 1972-1974. Member, Fulton Committee on the Civil Service. Former Chairman, Labour Economic and Finance Group.
Former member. Public Accounts Committee. Minister of State for the Civil Service and Minister of State at the Treasury, 1974. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1975-1979.
Member, Commons Select Committee on Treasury and Civil Service, 1979-1981. Deputy Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs, 1980-1983. Chairman. Public Accounts Committee, 1983.
Former engineering apprentice and qualified engineer.
Spouse Mary Shield, 1971. Children: one son, one daughter from previous marriage.