Siobhan McMahon

Siobhan McMahon MSP
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Central Scotland
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 May 2011
Personal details
Born 4 July 1984 (1984-07-04) (age 27)
Nationality Scottish
Political party Labour
Religion Roman Catholic Church

Siobhan McMahon (born 4 July 1984) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Central Scotland region.[1]

Contents

Political career

McMahon is supporting Johann Lamont MSP to become Scottish Labour's leader.

Labour Party researcher

Controversially, McMahon previously worked as a paid researcher for her serving MSP father, Michael McMahon.[2] After the Scottish Parliament Election in 2011 Siobhan, despite being handicapped, was elected as a regional list MSP and they became the first father and daughter pair to serve in the Scottish Parliament.[3]

She has also worked for Labour MP Jim Murphy and as part of the Labour Support Unit in the Scottish Parliament.

Personal life

McMahon graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with a 2.1 BA Honours in Politics with History and Sociology in 2006.

She is a member of the GMB trade union and is interested in the politics of South Africa.

References

  1. ^ The Scottish Parliament - Current Members - Siobhan McMahon
  2. ^ Black, Andrew (27 November 2008). "Which MSPs are employing family?". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7752236.stm. Retrieved 14 May 2011. "Over in the Labour camp, it is a family affair for Hamilton North and Bellshill MSP Michael McMahon, who pays wife Margaret and daughter Siobhan as parliamentary assistant and researcher respectively." 
  3. ^ Lindsey Johnstone and Mareike Brensing (6 May 2011). "Holyrood to get first blind MSP". The Herald. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/election-2011/holyrood-to-get-first-blind-msp-1.1100035. Retrieved 14 May 2011. "Another first is the election of a father and daughter, Michael and Siobhan McMahon. Mr McMahon was returned as MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill with a Labour majority of 714, while his daughter is one of three Labour MSPs representing the Central region." 

External links

Opposition frontbench
Jackie Baillie (health) · Claire Baker (rural affairs/environment) · Richard Baker (infrastructure) · Sarah Boyack (local government) · Patricia Ferguson (culture/external affairs) · Johann Lamont (leader) · Lewis Macdonald (justice)  · Ken Macintosh (finance) · Paul Martin (parliamentary business)  · Claire Baker (rural affairs/environment) · James Kelly (chief whip)
Attending: ) · Kezia Dugdale (youth employment) · Siobhan McMahon (PPS to Johann Lamont)
Deputy spokespersons
Claudia Beamish (environment/climate change) · Neil Bibby (children) · Neil Findlay (skills) · Rhoda Grant (energy and enterprise) · Jenny Marra (justice) · Elaine Murray (housing and transport) · John Pentland (whip) · Drew Smith (social justice)) · Richard Simpson (public health)
Backbenchers
Elected in the 2011 election
Constituency MSPs
Additional Members
Clare Adamson (SNP) · Richard Lyle (SNP) · Mark Griffin (Lab) · Margaret Mitchell (Con) · Siobhan McMahon (Lab) · Margaret McCulloch (Lab) · John Wilson (SNP)
Labour (6 seats), SNP (9 seats), Conservative (1 seat)