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David Chaytor MP

Welcome to my website, I hope you find your visit useful.  I aim to tell you what I have been doing, both nationally and locally, as your Member of Parliament for Bury North.  

Over 90,000 people live in the parliamentary constituency of Bury North which includes Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington and Unsworth, together with the villages of Affetside, Hawkshaw, Holcombe, Shuttleworth and Summerseat.

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   Letters and Articles
  • 10-2008 - (Public Finance Magazine) Testing, testing............
    Conor Ryan’s excellent article last week gave a well informed account of the state of play on the great debate on testing. However, a number of issues are worth exploring further as we...
  • 10-2002 (Tribune) - The Great Leap Backwards
    In 1996, David Blunkett made his historic pledge: “No more selection under a Labour Government”. Since then, grammar school ballots have been rigged in favour of the status quo....
  • 04-1998 (Tribune) - Explosive Reaction
    The Government faces a series of decisions crucial to the credibility of its green credentials. Should we join with France, Japan and Russia in their astonishing amble of wishing...
  • 02-2002 (The Lecturer) - Education: the big picture
    The 1997 Labour government wasted no time in prioritising further education. The first secretary of state for education ever to be educated in an FE college. The first Green Paper on...
  • 11-2006 - (Improvement Magazine) The Final Act
    The Education and Inspections Bill started its life with a huge political bang—but recently completed its passage through Parliament with the tiniest of whimpers. Other than a late frisson...
  • 09-2006 (SERA Pamphlet) - Energy Productivity and Decentralised Generation
    During his G8 and EU Presidency last year the Prime Minister demonstrated impressive global leadership on climate change. However, the relentless rise of UK CO2 emissions has led to...
  • 04-2004 (ePolitix) - Choice, Preference and Equity: School Admissions in the Third Term
    The main theme of Tony Blair’s second term was investment and reform of public services. No-one can dispute that the Government has delivered the investment, with startling improvements in...
  • 09-2004 (The Parliamentary Monitor) - The Paradox of Parental Choice
    The recent publication of the Five Year Strategy for Children and Learners marked a new stage in the Government’s ambitious and comprehensive programme to transform English education. The tone...
  • 11-2000 (The Guardian) - Fragile employment
    The case for a national minimum training entitlement. The unemployment rate in my constituency of Bury North is 2.8%. I like to quote that because it is significantly lower...
  • 01-2004 (The Guardian) - Socialism Actually
    Far from being a betrayal of socialism, the higher education bill is in fact a very necessary act of redistribution of educational opportunity, argues David Chaytor. As we approach...
  • 07-2000 - 'Contraction and Convergence', and the Changing Climate
    On Friday the 16th of June the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution(RCEP) published its 22nd report Energy - the changing climate.They made 87 recommendations to the government. The third...
  • 10-2002 (Catalyst) - New Labour, New Eleven Plus?
    There are few issues that more strongly unite most Labour MPs, and almost all members of the Labour Party, than support for comprehensive education. Almost all Labour MPs attended a...
  • 09-2006 - (Renewal) New Labour: Rebuilding the Coalition
    Introduction Everything written about New Labour in the summer of 2006 will be overshadowed by the coming change of leader. But this change, hugely important though it is, cannot...
  • 05-2007 - (The House Magazine) Could Still Do Better
    The programme of investment and reform in education during Tony Blair’s premiership has delivered some exceptional results. These include annual improvements in examination performance, a step change in the quality...
  • 03-2007 - (the2020vision.org.uk) Greening the Browns
    We can be justly proud of many of our Labour Government’s achievements on the environment. Tony Blair has led the world in forcing climate change to the top of the...
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