Personal Life
Alan Haselhurst married Angela Margaret Bailey on 16 April 1977, and they have two sons and a daughter. He is a very vocal supporter of community-based projects and was for a time a Director of Turning Point, a charity working with socially excluded young people, for five years from 1981. He is seen as a Wet Tory, and has been a supporter of Kenneth Clarke. He was knighted in 1995 and sworn of the Privy Council in 1999. He is the Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cricket, was a member of the executive council of Essex County Cricket Club from 1996 to 2008, and is a member of MCC.
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