David Evennett

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David Anthony Evennett (born June 3, 1949) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath and Crayford.

He was educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School and the London School of Economics where he was awarded a MSc in economics. He began his career as a teacher at Ilford County High School, 1972-4 and resigned when he became a councillor for the London Borough of Redbridge (1974-8). From 1974 until 1981 he was also a marine insurance broker at Lloyds. He contested the safe Labour seat of Hackney South and Shoreditch but was lost by 6,704 votes to Ronald Brown.

He was elected as the Conservative MP for Erith and Crayford at the 1983 general election when he defeated James Wellbeloved who had defected from the Labour Party to the new Social Democratic Party in 1981. Evenett won the seat with a majority of just 920 votes over Wellbeloved. He remained the MP until the seat was abolished at the 1997 general election. He contested the newly drawn Bexleyheath and Crayford seat but lost to Labour's Nigel Beard by 3,415 votes. He lost to Beard again at the 2001 general election but reduced his majority to 1,475. However he was re-elected to parliament for Bexleyheath and Crayford at the 2005 general election, ousting Beard by 4,551 votes.

In parliament he joined the education and science select committee in 1986, and following the 1992 general election he was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of State at the Department for Education Emily Blatch. In 1993 be became the PPS to the Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood until 1995 when he was the PPS to the Home Office minister David Maclean, and then to Gillian Shephard to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in 1996, where he remained until he was defeated at the 1997 general election. Since his re-election in 2005 he has been a member of the Education and Skills Select Committee, and was appointed as an Opposition Whip by Michael Howard and remains a whip under the new leadership of David Cameron.

David Evennett has been married to Marilyn Smith since 1975 and they have two sons.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by:
James Wellbeloved		 Member of Parliament for Erith and Crayford
1983–1997		 Succeeded by:
(constituency abolished)
Preceded by:
Nigel Beard		 Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath and Crayford
2005 – present		 Incumbent
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