Sharon Hodgson

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Sharon Hodgson (born April 1, 1966) is a British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West.

Sharon Hodgson was born in Gateshead, Tyneside and was educated locally at the Greenwell and Heathfield schools in the town. She also attended the Newcastle Academy and the Trades Union Congress Academy in London. She worked as a payroll and accounting clerk with the Labour Party from 1982, until she became the northern regional Party organiser in 1999. In 2000, she became the Party organiser for two years in the Mitcham and Morden constituency, helping the sitting Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh to be re-elected at the 2001 General Election.

She was elected for two years as the women's officer within the Tyne Bridge Constituency Labour Party (CLP) in 1998. In 2002 she was elected as the secretary of the Mitcham and Morden CLP in the London Borough of Merton until her election to the House of Commons at the 2005 General Election for Gateshead East and Washington West following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP Joyce Quin. Hodgson held the seat with a majority of 13,407, and made her maiden speech on May 25, 2005.[1]

In parliament she has served as a member of both the deregulation and European scrutiny select committees since 2005. She is married and has two children.