Ivan Lewis

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The Rt Hon Ivan Lewis
Ivan Lewis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Care Services)
Incumbent
Assumed office 
15 May 2006
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Norman Warner
Member of Parliament
for Bury South
In office
1 May 1997 – present
Preceded by David Sumberg
Born March 4, 1967 (1967-03-04) (age 41)
Flag of England Prestwich, Bury, UK
Political party Labour

Ivan Lewis (born 4 March 1967, Prestwich, Bury) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the member of Parliament for Bury South, and is a member of the Labour Party. He was first elected in the 1997 general election.

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[edit] Early life

Lewis was educated at the (former independent) William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester, Stand Sixth Form College (former Stand Grammar School, now closed) and Bury College.

[edit] Member of Parliament

[edit] In government

Lewis was moved to a junior ministerial position in the Department of Health in the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2006. He previously held junior ministerial posts in the Treasury and the Department for Education and Skills, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Stephen Byers when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. On 29 June 2007 in Brown's first reshuffle as Prime Minister he was re-appointed to the post of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of Health, the only junior minister to survive the reshuffle where he has held on to the brief for social care and added mental health services. His has served as as Chief Executive of Jewish Social Services in Manchester.

Ivan Lewis also consistently supported plans to close Prestwich Arts College, in his local area, due to falling pupil numbers. The plans have now been dismissed (voted out 3-0 by the School's Organisation Committee).

[edit] Controversy

In 2008, Ivan Lewis was described in the House of Commons as an "arsehole" by Greg Mulholland MP, following Lewis's refusal to allow Mulholland to intervene to correct statements Lewis had made in debate on hospice funding. [1].

[edit] Personal life

He is Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Before his election he was the Chief Executive of Manchester Jewish Social Services. He married Juliette Fox in June 1990 in Stockport and they have two sons. Ivan is a lifelong Manchester City fan.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ MP defends himself over swearing. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
David Sumberg		 Member of Parliament for Bury South
1997 – present		 Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
John Healey		 Economic Secretary to the Treasury
2005—2006		 Succeeded by
Ed Balls