John Park (politician)

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John Park

Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife
In office 3 May 2007 – 7 December 2012
Succeeded by	Jayne Baxter
Personal details
Born	(1973-09-14) 14 September 1973 Dunfermline, Fife
Political party	Scottish Labour Party

John Park (born 14 September 1973) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and was elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region in May 2007. Park resigned his seat with effect from 7 December 2012 and is replaced by Jayne Baxter.

Background

Park was formerly a trade union official working for Unite (formerly Amicus and the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union) and the Scottish TUC. He started working in Rosyth Dockyard in 1989 as an electrical apprentice. He became active in the Dockyard's influential trade unions during the Trident refitting campaign in the early 1990s. After becoming a shop steward he was elected the Dockyard's youngest ever full time trade union convenor in 1998.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Park was appointed the Labour Party's Skills spokesperson following the election of Wendy Alexander as leader in September 2007 and quickly established a campaign to increase the number of apprentices in Scotland. He was appointed in September 2008 to Iain Gray's Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Minister for Economy and Skills. ^{[citation needed]} Park resigned his seat on 7 December 2012, to take up a position with the Community trades union. He is replaced by the next available Labour candidate from the Mid Scotland and Fife list, Fife Councillor Jayne Baxter (Cowdenbeath).^[1]

References

↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-20577776

External links

v t e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Mid Scotland and Fife region

Elected in the 2011 election

Constituency MSPs	Keith Brown (SNP, Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) Helen Eadie (Lab, Cowdenbeath) Vacant (Dunfermline) Tricia Marwick (PO, Fife Mid and Glenrothes) Roderick Campbell (SNP, Fife North East) David Torrance (SNP, Kirkcaldy) John Swinney (SNP, Perthshire North) Roseanna Cunningham (SNP, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) Bruce Crawford (SNP, Stirling)

Additional members	Claire Baker (Lab) Murdo Fraser (Con) Annabelle Ewing (SNP) John Park (Lab) Willie Rennie (Lib Dem) Richard Simpson (Lab) Elizabeth Smith (Con)

SNP (8 seats), Labour (4 seats), Conservative (2 seats), Lib Dems (1 seat); Presiding Officer (1 seat)

Scottish Labour Party

Headquarters: Transport House, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4RE

Leaders

Donald Dewar (1999–2000)
Henry McLeish (2000–2001)
Jack McConnell (2001–2007)
Wendy Alexander (2007–2008)
Iain Gray (2008–2011)
Johann Lamont (2011–)

Deputy Leaders

Henry McLeish (1999–2000)
Cathy Jamieson (2000–2008)
Johann Lamont (2008–2011)
Anas Sarwar (2011–)

General Secretaries

Jack McConnell (1992–1998)
Alex Rowley (1998–1999)
Lesley Quinn (1999–2008)
Colin Smyth (2008–2013)
Ian Price (2013–)

MSP Group

Shadow cabinet	Johann Lamont (leader) Iain Gray (finance) Graeme Pearson (justice) Neil Findlay (health) Kezia Dugdale (education) James Kelly (infrastructure) Sarah Boyack (local government) Claire Baker (rural) Patricia Ferguson (culture) Drew Smith (constitution) Jackie Baillie (social justice) Paul Martin (parliamentary business and chief of staff) Lewis Macdonald (chief whip) Richard Baker (party policy review) Jenny Marra (youth employment and finance)

Deputy spokespersons	Claudia Beamish (environment/climate change) Neil Bibby (education) Mary Fee (housing) Rhoda Grant (wellbeing) Elaine Murray (community safety) Richard Simpson (public health)

Backbenchers	Jayne Baxter Malcolm Chisholm Hugh Henry Cara Hilton Mark Griffin Ken Macintosh Hanzala Malik Margaret McCulloch (deputy whip) Margaret McDougall Michael McMahon Siobhan McMahon Duncan McNeil Anne McTaggart John Pentland (deputy whip) Alex Rowley Elaine Smith David Stewart

MP Group

Shadow cabinet	Douglas Alexander Margaret Curran Jim Murphy

Shadow ministers	Gordon Banks Russell Brown Thomas Docherty Gemma Doyle Tom Greatrex Cathy Jamieson Gregg McClymont Ian Murray

Backbenchers	Willie Bain Anne Begg Gordon Brown Katy Clark Tom Clarke Michael Connarty Alistair Darling Ian Davidson Brian Donohoe Frank Doran Sheila Gilmore David Hamilton Tom Harris Jimmy Hood Eric Joyce Mark Lazarowicz Michael McCann James McGovern Anne McGuire Ann McKechin Iain McKenzie Graeme Morrice Pamela Nash Fiona O'Donnell Sandra Osborne John Robertson Frank Roy Lindsay Roy Anas Sarwar James Sheridan

MEP Group

Organisation

Scottish Executive Committee
Scottish Labour Conference
Scottish Policy Forum
Scottish Trade Union Labour Party Committee
Scottish Labour Students
Scottish Young Labour
Campaign for Socialism Group
Review of the Labour Party in Scotland
History

In Government

First
Second

Persondata
Name	Park, John
Alternative names
Short description	Scottish politician
Date of birth	14 September 1973
Place of birth	Dunfermline, Scotland, UK
Date of death
Place of death

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