Gillian Merron
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| Gillian Merron MP | |
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Member of Parliament
for Lincoln |
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| Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth Carlisle |
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| Born | 12 April 1959 Ilford, Essex |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Lancaster |
Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln. She is currently a Parliamentary Secretary based at the Department for International Development.
Born in Ilford, Essex and educated at Wanstead High School in Wanstead in east London and the University of Lancaster gaining a BSc(Hons) in Management Sciences, she worked as a local government officer and a UNISON and NUPE regional trade union official. She was elected to the House of Commons in May 1997 with a majority of 11,130 (4,613 in 2005). Until 2007, when Quentin Davies defected to the Labour Party, She was Lincolnshire's only Labour MP - and the first since Margaret Beckett had the seat in 1979.
From October 2002 until May 2006 she was a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. She then moved to the Department for Transport, where she worked until the reshuffle on 29 June 2007, when she became a minister at the Cabinet Office and the first ever minister of the East Midlands. Following Peter Hain's resignation on 24 January 2008 Merron was reshuffled again, becoming a junior minister in the Department for International Development.
[edit] Voting record
How Gillian Merron voted on key issues since 2001 (They Work For You):
- Voted for introducing a smoking ban.
- Voted for introducing ID cards.
- Voted for introducing foundation hospitals.
- Voted for introducing student top-up fees.
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
- Voted for the Iraq war.
- Voted against investigating the Iraq war.
- Voted for replacing Trident.
- Voted for the hunting ban.
- Voted for equal gay rights.
[edit] External links
- Gillian Merron MP's Website
- The Labour Party - Gillian Merron MP
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Gillian Merron MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Gillian Merron MP
- BBC Politics page
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| Preceded by Kenneth Carlisle |
MP for Lincoln 1997 – present |
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