Steve Webb is a United Kingdom politician and Member of Parliament for Northavon for the Liberal Democrats, and was first elected in 1997. He serves as Lib Dem Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
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 .
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 inagural Hansard Society E-Democracy Award .
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