Member of Skelmersdale Urban District Council for Old Skelmersdale
In office 9 May 1963 – 26 March 1968
Preceded by
Tom Pye
Succeeded by
Council abolished
Member of Alyn and Deeside District Council for Ewloe
In office 7 May 1987 – 31 March 1996
Serving with P. Bernie
Preceded by
D. Davies
Succeeded by
Council abolished
Member of Clwyd County Council for Sealand
In office 6 May 1993 – 31 March 1996
Preceded by
Ward established
Succeeded by
Council abolished
Member of Flintshire County Council for Ewloe
In office 1 April 1996 – 14 May 1999
Serving with Alison Halford
Preceded by
Council re-established
Succeeded by
D. Parry
Personal details
Born
(1936-06-25) 25 June 1936 (age 88) Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Political party
Labour
Spouse
Patricia Mary
(m. 1986)
Children
2
Alma mater
Liverpool Polytechnic
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Thomas Middlehurst (born 25 June 1936) is a British retired politician who served as Leader of Flintshire County Council from 1996 to 1999 and Assembly Secretary for Education and Training in the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party, he was Assembly Member (AM) for Alyn and Deeside from 1999 until his retirement in 2003.
Middlehurst was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. He was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School, Wigan Technical College and Liverpool Polytechnic, and in his early life lived in Skelmersdale. He was an engineering apprentice from 1952 to 1957 and worked as an engineer at the National Coal Board from 1957 to 1963, before working as an engineer and manager in the private sector until 1971. In 1971, he moved to Wales and became a local government officer for Flintshire County Council and its successor Clwyd County Council, remaining in this job until 1993.
In 1963, Middlehurst was elected as a Labour councillor for Skelmersdale Urban District Council, stepping down in 1968. In Wales, he was elected to Alyn and Deeside District Council in 1986 and Clwyd County Council in 1993 before becoming the first leader of the re-established Flintshire County Council in 1996, where he implemented council tax increases and cut local services to balance the budget. He also fought to prevent the closure of Theatr Clwyd and persuaded Terry Hands to become its director. From 1997 to 1999, he also chaired the Welsh Local Government Association.
In the first election to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999, Middlehurst was elected as AM for Alyn and Deeside. He was appointed to the cabinet of First Secretary Alun Michael as Assembly Secretary for Education and Training. In this role, he implemented free entry for children to galleries and museums, reformed the post-16 system of education and training and trialled a welfare scheme for benefit claimaints in Newport, Torfaen and Monmouthsire. He also intervened in the Wales Millennium Centre project to keep government spending under control. He remained in his post under Michael's successor Rhodri Morgan until October 2000, when he resigned in protest of Labour's coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats. He retired at the 2003 assembly election after becoming disillusioned with the politics of the National Assembly.
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