1. Stephen John Ladyman was born on 6 November 1952 and is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for South Thanet from 1997 until 2010.
11 Facts About Stephen Ladyman
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Stephen Ladyman served as a minister in the government of Tony Blair between 2003 and 2007, latterly as Minister of State for Transport.
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Stephen Ladyman did work placements at Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden and at Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Liverpool, before studying for a PhD awarded by the University of Strathclyde for researching natural isotopic abundances of elements to enable prediction of soil development when at the Natural Environment Research Council's radiocarbon laboratory, in the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride.
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Stephen Ladyman contested the Wantage constituency in June 1987, when 34.
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Stephen Ladyman was elected to Parliament in the 1997 United Kingdom general election, defeating Jonathan Aitken.
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Stephen Ladyman was a junior minister at the Department for Health from June 2003 until May 2005, when he was appointed Minister of State for Transport having narrowly held his seat in the 2005 General Election with a majority of 664 votes.
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Stephen Ladyman was chair of Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from January 2013 to 2020 and appointed as Chair of Wiltshire Health and Care in 2020 and Chair of the National Autistic Society in November 2021.
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Stephen Ladyman revealed himself to be a fan of cars, and admitted to having received several speeding fines and a total of nine penalty points.
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Stephen Ladyman set a time of 1:48.8, faster than Clarkson's own time of 1:50.
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Stephen Ladyman married Janet Pike in May 1995 on the Isle of Thanet.
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Stephen Ladyman has one daughter, one stepdaughter and two stepsons.