David Hanson, Baron Hanson of Flint

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Hanson of Flint

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}}

| image = Official portrait of Lord Hanson of Flint crop 2.jpg

| caption = Official portrait, 2024

| office = Minister of State for the Home Office

| primeminister = Keir Starmer

| term_start = 9 July 2024

| predecessor = Office established

| office1 = Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing

| term_start1 = 8 June 2009

| term_end1 = 11 May 2010

| primeminister1 = Gordon Brown

| predecessor1 = Vernon Coaker

| successor1 = Nick Herbert

| office2 = Minister of State for Justice

| term_start2 = 9 May 2007

| term_end2 = 9 June 2009

| primeminister2 = {{ubl|Tony Blair|Gordon Brown}}

| predecessor2 = Office established

| successor2 = Maria Eagle

| office3 = Minister of State for Northern Ireland

| term_start3 = 11 May 2005

| term_end3 = 8 May 2007

| primeminister3 = Tony Blair

| predecessor3 = John Spellar

| successor3 = Paul Goggins

| office4 = Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

| primeminister4 = Tony Blair

| term_start4 = 8 Jun 2001

| term_end4 = 6 May 2005

| predecessor4 = Bruce Grocott

| successor4 = Keith Hill

| office5 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales

| primeminister5 = Tony Blair

| term_start5 = 29 Jul 1999

| term_end5 = 7 Jun 2001

| predecessor5 = {{ubl|Peter Hain|Jon Owen Jones}}

| successor5 = Don Touhig

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| embed = yes

| office5 = Shadow Minister for Immigration

| term_start5 = 7 October 2011

| term_end5 = 13 September 2015

| leader5 = {{ubl|Ed Miliband|Harriet Harman}}

| successor5 = Keir Starmer

| predecessor5 = Gerry Sutcliffe

| office6 = Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury

| term_start6 = 11 May 2010

| term_end6 = 7 October 2011

| leader6 = {{ubl|Harriet Harman|Ed Miliband}}

| predecessor6 = Position established

| successor6 = Cathy Jamieson

}}

| office7 = Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal

| termstart7 = 18 July 2024
Life peerage

| term_end7 =

| office8 = Member of Parliament
for Delyn

| parliament8 =

| majority8 =

| predecessor8 = Keith Raffan

| successor8 = Rob Roberts

| term_start8 = 9 April 1992

| term_end8 = 6 November 2019

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|7|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Liverpool, Lancashire, England

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Labour

| relations =

| spouse = Margaret Hanson

| children = 4

| alma_mater = University of Hull

}}

David George Hanson, Baron Hanson of Flint, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|PC}} (born 5 July 1957), is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Minister of State for the Home Office since July 2024.{{Cite web |title=Minister of State (Lords Minister) – GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--195 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=www.gov.uk |language=en}} He previously served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Delyn from 1992 to 2019. He held several ministerial offices in the Blair and Brown governments, serving in the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Wales Office, the Northern Ireland Office and the Whips' Office. Hanson sat on Ed Miliband's opposition front bench as a shadow treasury minister, and later the shadow immigration minister.

Early life

Hanson was born in Liverpool, Lancashire to Brian Hanson, a forklift truck driver, and Glenda Hanson, a personnel records clerk. He has a younger sister named Helen. Hanson was educated at Roscoe Primary School in Liverpool, Grange Primary School and Verdin County Comprehensive School in Winsford, Cheshire, and the University of Hull, where he received a BA in 1978 and a CertEd in 1980. Whilst in Hull, he was the vice president of the university students' union and a member of Hull University Labour Club.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}

He began his career with the Cooperative Society in 1980 as a trainee manager, becoming a manager in Plymouth in 1981. He worked for the Spastics Society, now Scope, from 1982 until 1989, when he was appointed as a director at the Society for the Prevention of Solvent Abuse.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}

Political career

Hanson was elected as a councillor to the Vale Royal Borough Council in 1983, serving as the Labour group and council leader from 1989 until 1991, when he stood down to stand in Delyn at the 1992 general election. He was also elected as a councillor to the Northwich Town Council in 1987 and also led the Labour group there in 1989 for a year, leaving the Town Council in 1991.

He unsuccessfully contested Eddisbury at the 1983 general election where he was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Alastair Goodlad by 14,846 votes. In 1984 he contested the West Cheshire seat for the European Parliament but was again unsuccessful. He contested Delyn in Wales at the 1987 general election but was defeated by the Tory Keith Raffan by 1,224 votes. It proved third time lucky for Hanson when he was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election when, following Raffan's retirement, he won the Clwyd seat at Delyn by 2,039. He made his maiden speech on 6 May 1992.{{Cite web|title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 6 May 1992|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-05-06/Debate-7.html|access-date=2021-06-15|website=publications.parliament.uk}}

File:Shadow Policing Minister David Hanson MP (left) and Tony Lloyd, PCC for Greater Manchester.jpg in 2013]]

In parliament he was a member of the Welsh affairs select committee from 1992 until he joined the public accounts committee in 1996. He became the Parliamentary Private Secretary PPS to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alistair Darling in 1997 and became a member of the Tony Blair government in his first reshuffle in 1998 when he was appointed as an Assistant Government Whip. He was promoted in 1999 on his appointment as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office. Following the 2001 general election he became the PPS to Prime Minister Tony Blair. He served as the Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office from the 2005 general election until 8 May 2007, when the Northern Ireland Assembly was restored after its period of suspension. He was the Minister of State at the new Ministry of Justice from 9 May 2007 until 8 June 2009.{{cite web| url= http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11641.asp| title= www.number10.gov.uk| access-date= 9 May 2007| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071005145805/http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11641.asp| archive-date= 5 October 2007| df= dmy-all}} On 21 February 2007, his appointment to the Privy Council was announced.{{cite web| url= http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11037.asp| title= www.number10.gov.uk| access-date= 21 February 2007| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071005150337/http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11037.asp| archive-date= 5 October 2007| df= dmy-all}}

He was Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing at the Home Office from 8 June 2009 until the 2010 general election. He then shadowed that role, and after the Labour leadership election was appointed Shadow Treasury Minister.

In September 2011 he contributed to the book What Next for Labour? Ideas for a new Generation, with a piece entitled "What Awaits Labour in 2015?"{{cite web|url=http://www.whatnextforlabour.com/contributors/|title=Contributors – What Next for Labour?|website=www.whatnextforlabour.com|access-date=10 January 2012|archive-date=16 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016143940/http://www.whatnextforlabour.com/contributors/|url-status=dead}}

Hanson lost his seat in the 2019 general election to Rob Roberts, the Conservative Party candidate.{{cite news |title=Delyn parliamentary constituency – Election 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/W07000042 |website=BBC News |access-date=21 July 2020}} He was knighted in the 2020 Birthday Honours for political service.{{London Gazette|issue=63135|supp=y|page=B2|date=10 October 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Nuttall |first1=Andrew |title='Honoured and humbled' by knighthood from the Queen, says former Delyn MP |url=https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/18784080.honoured-humbled-knighthood-queen-says-former-delyn-mp/ |access-date=9 October 2020 |work=The Leader |date=9 October 2020}}

On 9 July 2024, Hanson was appointed as a minister of state in the Home Office by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.{{cite web |title=The Rt Hon Sir David Hanson |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-hanson |website=GOV.UK |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |date=5 July 2024 |title=Ministerial Appointments: July 2024 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024 |access-date=10 July 2024 |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |language=en}} Hanson was nominated for a life peerage and was created Baron Hanson of Flint, of Flint in the County of Flintshire, on 19 July.{{London Gazette |date=25 July 2024 |issue=64469 |page=14366}} He was introduced to the House of Lords on 23 July.{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |house=House of Lords |title=Introduction: Lord Hanson of Flint |date=23 July 2024 |volume=839 |column=357 |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-07-23/debates/49BF153D-56BF-4620-AC5F-FFBF974ED609/IntroductionLordHansonOfFlint}}

Personal life

He married Margaret Rose Mitchell, who has also been a politician in Vale Royal. She was narrowly defeated at the 1999 Eddisbury by-election, the same constituency he himself had fought in 1983.{{cite web|title=Labour selects by-election candidate|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/386211.stm|date=5 July 1999|access-date=31 August 2019|publisher=BBC News}} They have a son and three daughters.

References

External links

[http://www.davidhanson.org.uk/ David Hanson] official constituency website
[https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100412133647/http://www.welshlabour.org.uk/candidates/david-hanson-delyn David Hanson MP] Welsh Labour Party profile
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011033036/http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/hanson.htm Minister of State for Justice] archived government profile
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