David Anthony Lock KC (born 2 May 1960) is a barrister and former Labour Party politician in the

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. He was educated at Esher Grammar School, Woking Sixth Form College,

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(MA theology 1982) and Polytechnic of Central London (Diploma in law 1984), and went on to

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as a Wilson Scholar in 1985. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest in the 1997 general election, but lost his seat in the 2001 election to Richard Taylor, the

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candidate. He served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the

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from July 1999 to June 2001. He became the first Labour MP in the Wyre Forest for many years but lost his seat when he supported changes to the accident and emergency services at Kidderminster General Hospital in the face of public opposition. The downgrading of emergency services at Kidderminster were the first of many such changes across the country, many of which attracted trenchant local opposition. Following his election defeat he became a director of Searchflow Limited and founded a litigation funding company, IML Limited. In January 2002 he became Chair of the Service Authorities to the

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and

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and was concerned with the merger of those bodies to become the

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. In late 2003 he returned to legal practice, heading up healthcare law at the law firm Mills & Reeve. He was then involved in a series of high-profile legal cases concerning healthcare and in 2008 returned to practice at the Bar. He is a member of Landmark Chambers, 180 Fleet Street, London. He was a member of the Department of Health Organ Donation Taskforce in 2008/09. He is Chair of the West Midlands Labour Finance and Industry Group and is a qualified

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pilot. He was made a KC in 2011 and was the Birmingham Law Society's choice of "Barrister of the Year" in April 2011. David Lock KC is a non-executive board director of Innovation Birmingham and also a non-executive director a
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
He is also a Trustee o
Brook
the sexual health advice charity for young people and a member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lock, David 1960 births Living people Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1997–2001 Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge English barristers English King's Counsel Alumni of the Polytechnic of Central London