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Dame Margaret Anne Begg〔(Profile ), ukwhoswho.com; accessed 31 August 2014.〕 DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South between 1997 and 2015. She was the first permanent wheelchair user in the House of Commons since 1880.〔(Profile ), turtlebunbury.com; accessed 31 August 2014.〕 ==Education and career== Begg was educated at the Damacre Primary School (Brechin), Brechin High School and the University of Aberdeen where she earned an MA in History and Politics. From Aberdeen College of Education (merged with the Dundee College of Education in 1987 to become the Northern College of Education then became the Faculty of Education of the University of Aberdeen in December 2001), she gained a Secondary Teaching Certificate in 1978. From 1978 she taught history and English at the Webster's High School in Kirriemuir.〔 She joined the Labour Party in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anne Begg profile )〕 In 1988 she became the principal teacher of English at the Arbroath Academy.〔 In the same year she won the Disabled Scot of the Year Award.〔 Begg was selected to stand for election for Labour through an all-women shortlist.〔(Find Articles )〕 and when Aberdeen South (like many seats) fell to Labour in their landslide victory at the 1997 general election, she was listed as one of the Blair Babes.〔()〕 She defeated the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scottish Office Raymond Robertson. In 2001, she became the first Labour MP to retain the Aberdeen South seat. Begg has been a wheelchair user since 1984 as she lives with the degenerative Gaucher's disease.〔 She was the second full-time user of a wheelchair elected to the House of Commons, after Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh who was first elected in 1868 and sat until 1880. She made her maiden speech on 21 May 1997.〔http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_heroes/hist_hero_arthur_kavanagh.html〕 She was Secretary of the All-Party BBC Group and Chair of the All Party Group on Equalities, the All Party Oil and Gas Industry Group, the All Party Group on Chronic Pain, and the All Party Commercial Radio group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://iwc2.labouronline.org/168348/biography )〕 She was a member of the House of Commons Chairmen’s Panel〔 and Vice Chair of the Speaker's Conference which was tasked with looking at the under representation of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people in the House of Commons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/speakers_conference/membership.cfm )〕 She chaired the Work and Pensions Select Committee from July 2010. Begg lost her seat in the 2015 general election. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Begg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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