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[[Hazel Blears]] is the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles.<ref name="CommonsProfile">[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/hazel-blears/456 Hazel Blears], www.parliament.uk, accessed 22 March 2013.</ref>
 
[[Hazel Blears]] is the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles.<ref name="CommonsProfile">[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/hazel-blears/456 Hazel Blears], www.parliament.uk, accessed 22 March 2013.</ref>
  

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Hazel Blears at a Policy Exchange event

Hazel Blears is the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles.[1]

Blears contested Tatton unsuccessfully at the 1987 General Election, and Bury South in 1992. She served as MP for Salford from 1997 to 2010, at which time she won the renamed Salford and Eccles constituency.[1]

From 2001 to to 2003, Blears was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health.She served as a Minister of State at the Home Office responsible for Policing, Security and Community Safety from 2003 to 2006. In 2004, she became a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee, a position she held until 2010. In 2006-07, she served as a Minister without Portfolio at the Cabinet Office and Labour Party Chair. She was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2007 to 2009. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 2007-09. She has been a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee since 2010.[1]

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Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hazel Blears, www.parliament.uk, accessed 22 March 2013.