Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods is a British academic and former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for the City of Durham from 2005 to 2019.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods had previously been chair of the City of Durham Constituency Labour Party and before that in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods has served as a councillor on Oxford and Newcastle City Councils.
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In 2004, Roberta Blackman-Woods was selected as the Labour candidate for the City of Durham constituency through an All-Women Shortlist.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods was Chair of the All Party Afghanistan Group from 2005 and the All Party Balanced and Sustainable Communities Group from 2007.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods was a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Inter-Parliamentary Union throughout her Parliamentary career.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods resigned from the front bench in June 2016, before supporting Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods subsequently rejoined the front bench on Corbyn's re-election.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods was re-elected in 2017 with a majority of 12,362, and in July 2017 she was appointed as a Shadow International Development Minister.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods gave her valedictory speech in the House of Commons on 5 November 2019.
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In 2021 it was reported that Roberta Blackman-Woods had been subject to an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
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The Commissioner applied no sanctions to Roberta Blackman-Woods, who stated there was "strong medical reasons" for the issues that were raised.
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Roberta Blackman-Woods was appointed as chairwoman of governors at Northumbria University in December 2019, commencing the role in August 2020.