14 Facts About Seb Dance

Seb Dance was Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party when Richard Corbett was leader, and Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety from 2019 to 2020.

Seb Dance was the interim chair of the Labour Movement for Europe, the pro-EU society affiliated to the Labour Party, after the organisation's previous chair, Anna Turley, stepped down.

Seb Dance is married to Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore who is a British Labour Party life peer.

Seb Dance worked on a long-running campaign against tax avoidance by large multi-national companies.

Seb Dance was a Vice-Chair of the committee and chaired committee meetings, joint meetings with other committees such as AGRI, as well as formal trilogue meeting on the Drinking Water Directive.

Seb Dance sat on the European Parliament Committee on Development, overseeing the spending commitments and priorities of the EU's development budget; the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, as well as the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Seb Dance was appointed as a shadow rapporteur for the revision of the National Emissions Ceiling Directive, which aimed to improve levels of air quality by regulating the emissions of harmful pollutants.

Seb Dance was appointed as the Co-ordinator for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector.

The "Seb Dance Report" provided the European Parliament with its first blueprint for delivering the SDGs across all areas of the Parliament's work, as well as holding the other EU institutions to account on their programmes for delivering the SDGs.

Seb Dance was a shadow rapporteur on a proposal for an integrated approach to tackle the link between conflict and the trade of minerals extracted from affected areas.

Seb Dance supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.

Seb Dance later wrote to Tajani, saying he apologised for the method, but not the message.

Seb Dance has been a consistent supporter of the EU and the need for multilateralism to combat extremism and climate change, and was a vociferous opponent of Brexit.

Seb Dance was appointed Deputy Mayor of London for Transport, serving from January 2022 under Mayor Sadiq Khan.