Richard Burden | |||||||||
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![]() Official portrait, 2017 | |||||||||
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield | |||||||||
In office 9 April 1992 – 6 November 2019 | |||||||||
Preceded by | Roger King | ||||||||
Succeeded by | Gary Sambrook | ||||||||
Chair of the West Midlands Regional Select Committee | |||||||||
In office 12 March 2009 – 6 May 2010 | |||||||||
Preceded by | Office established | ||||||||
Succeeded by | Office abolished | ||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||
Born | Liverpool, Lancashire, England | 1 September 1954||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||
Alma mater | University of York (BA) University of Warwick (MA) | ||||||||
Richard Haines Burden (born 1 September 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1992 to 2019. He served as a Shadow Transport Minister from 2013 to 2016 and again from 2016 to 2017.[1] After the 2017 general election, he returned to the backbenches and served as a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee.