Education
Bradford College.
Bradford College.
His constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 2010 general election, when he was defeated in the new Bradford East seat by the Liberal Democrat candidate David Ward. Rooney has lived all his life in Bradford. He has been a local Councillor and was Deputy Leader of the Council until winning the Bradford North seat at a by-election in 1990 (The Bradford North constituency covered the communities in the Bolton, Bradford Moor, Bowling, Eccleshill, Idle and Undercliffe areas of the City, as well as a large part of the City Centre The communities are diverse in terms of ethnicity, age and economic status)
Terry Rooney was born in Bradford in 1950.
He went to Buttershaw Comprehensive School and then to Bradford College where he was awarded a Diploma in Higher Education.
He was also a Bradford City Councillor from 1983-1991 where he was Chair of the Labour Group from 1988-1991 and Deputy Leader of the Council from 1990-1991. In Parliament, Rooney was Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from 2005 to 2010.
Other posts he held included:
Honorary Secretary of the Yorkshire Group of Labour MPs (1991–2001)
Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party Work and Pensions Committee (1990–2006)
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for the Environment (1997–2001)
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Housing (2003-2005)
Political interests
Rooney"s main political interests are the welfare state, public sector housing, poverty and industrial relations. He was Chair of the Amicus Parliamentary Group.
Rooney is a firm supporter of the retention of first-past-the-post for Westminster and has also supported more directly redistributive tax and spend policies.
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Before being elected as the for Bradford North in a by-election in November 1990, Terry was a welfare rights adviser at the Bierley Community Centre. Member of the Broadcasting Committee (1991–1997)
Member of the Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform (2003-2005)
Member of the Liaison Committee (since 2005)
He is an active trade unionist and a member of Amicus and UNISON.