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The Right Honourable Richard Caborn
Caborn in 2005
Minister for Sport
In office 7 June 2001 – 28 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Kate Hoey
Succeeded by	Gerry Sutcliffe
Minister of State for Trade
In office 28 July 1999 – 7 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Brian Wilson
Succeeded by	The Baroness Symons
Minister of State for Regions, Regeneration and Planning
In office 2 May 1997 – 28 July 1999
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Nick Raynsford
Parliamentary offices Member of Parliament forSheffield Central In office 10 June 1983 – 12 April 2010 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Paul Blomfield Member of the European Parliament forSheffield In office 7 June 1979 – 14 June 1984 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Bob Cryer
Personal details
Born	Richard George Caborn (1943-10-06)6 October 1943 (age 82) Sheffield,West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Party	Labour
Spouse	Margaret Hayes
Alma mater	Sheffield Polytechnic
Occupation	Member of Parliament

Richard George Caborn (born 6 October 1943) is a British politician who served asMinister of Sport from 2001 to 2007 and later as theprime minister's ambassador forEngland's2018 FIFA World Cup bid. He previously served as a junior minister in theDepartment of Environment, Transport and the Regions andDepartment of Trade and Industry. A member of theLabour Party, he wasMember of Parliament (MP) forSheffield Central from1983 to2010.

Richard Caborn was born inSheffield and was educated at the Hurlfield Secondary Modern Boys School until 1958 (nowSheffield Springs Academy) on East Bank Road,Intake in Sheffield; Granville College of Further Education (nowCastle College, part ofSheffield College); and Sheffield Polytechnic (nowSheffield Hallam University), where he qualified as an engineer. He began anengineering apprenticeship in 1959 and became a convenor of shop stewards atFirth Brown in 1967 where he worked as a fitter. He was elected as the Vice-President ofSheffield Trades Council between 1968 and 1979. He became a governor of theBBC for three years in 1975.^{[citation needed]} He is a member of theCo-operative Party and ofAmicus (formerlyAEEU).

In1979, he was elected as aMember of the European Parliament forSheffield, where he remained until1984. He contested the newparliamentary seat of Sheffield Central at the1983 general election, following the decision to retire of the Labour MP forSheffield Park and formerCabinet memberFred Mulley, and was elected somewhat easily with a majority of 16,790, and remained the MP there until 2010.

Caborn joined thefrontbench underNeil Kinnock in 1988 when he became an opposition spokesman onTrade and Industry, becoming a spokesman of Regional Affairs in 1990. Following the1992 general election he became the chairman of the Trade and IndustrySelect committee where he served until 1995 when he became an opposition spokesman on theLord Chancellor's Department. Following Labour's return to power at the1997 general election, he entered the government ofTony Blair as the Minister of State at theDepartment of Environment, Transport and the Regions, in which role he was closely involved in establishing the EnglishRegional Development Agencies. He was also a strong supporter of English regional government, but after negative responses fromreferendums in the north of England in 2004 this was dropped by government. He then moved with the same position at the Department of Trade and Industry in 1999. He became aMember of the Privy Council in 1999, and from the2001 general election until 2007 he served as the Minister of Sport. In relation to theWembley Stadium rebuilding project, he announced in October 2005: "They say theCup Final will be there, barring six feet of snow or something like that".

Caborn was seen as a close ally ofJohn Prescott, running his campaigns for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in 1992 (whilst supportingBryan Gould for leader). He also ran Prescott's campaign for both deputy andleader in 1994. He is a formerBennite, and was very active on South Africa issues, being pro-Mandela andanti-apartheid; he ran concerts in support of theAfrican National Congress. He was an active supporter ofArthur Scargill during the1984–1985 miners' strike.

In March 2003, Caborn supportedTony Blair in voting for the controversialIraq War. On 30 December 2005, Caborn publicly announced his support for capped wages in British football.

On 28 June 2007, it was announced he would step down as Minister for Sport to become theprime minister's ambassador for Britain's unsuccessful2018 FIFA World Cup bid.^[1] In this role, he lobbiedFIFA, oversaw the appointment of the bid's senior team and liaised between ministers andthe Football Association.^[2]

Caborn announced on 13 September 2007 that he would stand down at thenext general election.^[3]

Caborn is a director ofNuclear Management Partners, which manages theSellafield nuclear complex, a consultant toAMEC, a construction firm in the nuclear industry, and also a consultant to theFitness Industry Association.

In March 2010, Caborn faced accusations inThe Sunday Times that he accepted money in exchange for influencing policy, implicating him in the"Lobbygate" affair.^[4] On 9 December 2010 he,Stephen Byers, andGeoff Hoon were banned from Parliament. TheStandards and Privileges Committee banned him for six months whilst Byers received two years and Hoon five years.^[5]

TheCaborn principles, a list of criteria used by aSecretary of State in deciding whether to use their power tocall in aplanning application, are named after Caborn, who asPlanning Minister first established them in June 1999.^[6]

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport – Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP official profile
• Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Richard Caborn MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com – Richard Caborn MP
• Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Richard Caborn
• BBC Politics profileArchived 21 February 2009 at theWayback Machine
• Becoming Sports Minister in June 2001
• Radio Five Live quiz in June 2001
• 2005 interview with the Guardian

• Talking in 2002 about a possible Olympic bid
• Interviewed by the Sport Industry Group in October 2006^{[permanent dead link]}

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