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| Established | June 09, 1983 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RBH September 11, 2021 01:54am |
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The river Amber runs through the constituency, but the landscape is one of abandoned coal seams, industrial estates and rows of Victorian terraced housing. The main towns are Ripley, Heanor and Alfreton, off the A38, just north of Derby and the constituency is a gateway to the Peak District National Park. It is very much marginal Middle England. Following the demise of coal, light engineering took its place, but this was hit by the recession of the nineties. Now there are companies such as Thorntons chocolates, Denby pottery, Bowmer & Kirkland construction and the Derbyshire Building Society, along with textile firms and tourism. It has the eighth highest proportion of those still working in manufacturing (29.2%). Unemployment is about average. Created in 1983, Amber Valley was formed out of parts of the old Ilkeston and Belper constituency (George Brown country). It was held originally - from 1983 to 1997 - by Conservative minister Philip Oppenheim, but his majority was gradually whittled away after 1987 and stood at just 712 in 1995. Despite boundary changes that could have been to his advantage, Labour's Judy Mallaber (formerly of NUPE and the LGIU) won by 11,500 in 1997 and still has a majority of 7,227 (16.2%). The Tories have control of Amber Valley Borough Council but lost one seat to Labour in the 2004 local elections.
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