Steve Webb

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Steven John Webb MP (born 18 July 1965) is a United Kingdom politician and Member of Parliament for Northavon for the Liberal Democrats, and was first elected in 1997. He is Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Health.

Webb was born in Birmingham on 18 July 1965 and attended the local comprehensive school (Dartmouth High School), before going on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. At the age of 21 he left college to work at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. In 1995 he became a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is also a member of the cross-party Parliamentary Christian Fellowship and vice-president of the Liberal-Democrat Christian Forum.

Webb is one of the growing number of MPs to have a website and in 2004 his website, which makes use of SMS technology, was commended in the New Statesman New Media Awards and, in February 2005, led him to win the inaugural Hansard Society E-Democracy Award. He is also one of the contributors to the Orange Book (2004). He is the author of a chapter in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest.