Helen Goodman

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Helen Catherine Goodman (born January 2, 1958) British politician She is the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland.

Goodman was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and was educated at the Lady Manners School, Bakewell, Derbyshire and Somerville College, Oxford.

On leaving Oxford she worked as a researcher for the Labour MP Phillip Whitehead and from 1995 she worked as the head of strategy at HM Treasury until she stood down in 1997. She was a director at the Commission on the Future for Multi Ethnic Britain before she was appointed the head of strategy at The Children's Society in 1998. From 2002 until her election she was the chief executive of the National Association of Toy and Leisure Libraries.

She was elected to the County Durham seat of Bishop Auckland at the 2005 General Election following the retirement of the veteran Labour MP Derek Foster. Goodman held the seat with a majority of 10,047 and remains the MP there. She made her maiden speech on May 25, 2005. [1] She is a member of the Public Accounts Committee. She is married with two children.