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Mrs Renée Short is a former MP for Wolverhampton North East.

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Former MP for Wolverhampton North East

Entered the House of Commons on 15 October 1964 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 18 May 1987 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Baird

Future MPs in this constituency

• Maureen Hicks
• Ken Purchase
• Emma Reynolds
• Jane Stevenson
• Sureena Brackenridge

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Exeter Prison 7 May 1987

  To my knowledge — which goes back to 1964—the question of overcrowding in our old prisons and the appalling conditions in which we keep prisoners has been raised again and again, and we have received exactly the same replies. That is scandalous. Is the Minister aware that the conditions in which we keep men in prison, three to a cell and with no sanitary provision except for a chamber...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Exeter Prison 7 May 1987

  Not excuses again?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Council House Sales 6 May 1987

  Is the Secretary of State aware of the seriousness of selling off so many local authority houses when his Government are building only about 130,000 a year, which is about half the number that the Labour Government built before 1979? Does he not understand that the more houses that are sold off to sitting tenants, the longer those who want to rent their local authorities will have to wait?

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