Derek Wyatt

Derek Murray Wyatt (born 4 December 1949) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sittingbourne and Sheppey from 1997 to 2010.

[citation needed] Wyatt was Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey (1997–2010) having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey (1994–95) where he was also Chairman of Alexandra Palace.

[citation needed] He won an ISPA Hero's Award (2006) for his work on seeing the Computer Misuse Act onto the statute book.

[1] Wyatt played rugby for the University of Oxford, the Barbarians and England and stopped a British and Irish Lions Tour to South Africa in 1986 with the help of Archbishop Trevor Huddleston.

He was Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Rugby Union group for 13 years and introduced an annual lecture and an awards dinner.