Tony McNulty
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| Anthony James McNulty M.P. | |
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Minister of State at the Home Office
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| In office 1997 – present |
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| Constituency | Harrow East |
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| Majority | 4,730 (9.3%) |
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| Born | 3 November 1958 |
| Political party | Labour |
Anthony James McNulty (born 3 November 1958, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom who has been Labour Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Harrow East since 1997 and a government minister from 2002 onwards he is presently a minister at the Home Office.
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[edit] Background, education and early political career
McNulty's father is an Irish immigrant who moved to England, from Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, as a teenager. McNulty was educated at Salvatorian College and Harrow and Stanmore Sixth Form College. He obtained B.A and M.A degrees from the University of Liverpool and Virginia Tech respectively. Before becoming an MP he was leader of the Labour group on Harrow council and a senior lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, at the University of North London. He ran in the 1992 General election.
[edit] Parliamentary career
McNulty was successfully elected in the May 1997 General Election. He served as a Whip from 1999 to 2002, following a period as Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Blunkett. McNulty was then appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for neighbourhood renewal, housing and planning.
He was moved to the Department for Transport in June 2003 as Parliamentary Under Secretary with responsibility for aviation, local transport and London and was promoted to Minister of State with responsibility for Rail and London in September 2004. During that time, he piloted through the House of Commons the legislation which became the Railways Act 2005, and laid himself open to criticism for his statements about the future of economic regulation in the railway industry. It was McNulty who successfully resisted - and had reversed - an important amendment to the legislation which would have protected train operators against the consequences of government-imposed cuts in the financial resources available to Network Rail.
McNulty moved to the Home Office on 9 May 2005 as Minister of State for Immigration, following the general election reshuffle. There was a lot of criticism about the immigration system during this period and several national newspapers called for his resignation. In May 2006 his Home Office portfolio changed to responsibility over the police force(BBC). In January 2007 he was involved in the issue of processing information about foreign convictions.
[edit] Personal
McNulty is married to Christine Gilbert, CBE who is Her Majesty's Chief Inspector at Ofsted.
