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[edit] Her Outward Bound bio says...

Kate Hoey MP

Kate Hoey has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Vauxhall since a by-election in 1989. Kate was born and brought up in Northern Ireland and attended the Ulster College of Physical Education before taking an Economics degree in London. She has always been very interested in sport and was once the Northern Ireland High Jump Champion. She has worked for a number of football clubs including Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, Chelsea and Brentford, as Educational Advisor. Kate was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Frank Field, the Minister for Welfare Reform, after the election of the Labour Government in 1997. In July 1998 she was appointed as a Minister in the Home Office before becoming Sports Minister in 1999, a position she held until the 2001 General Election. She is very interested in foreign affairs, visiting Sarajevo at the height of the siege and monitoring the first democratic elections in Angola. Kate was appointed a Trustee in October 2002.