Helen Eadie

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constituency_MP = Dunfermline East
parliament = Scottish
majority = 3,993 (16.35)
term_start = 6 May 1999
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Helen Eadie (born March 7 1947, Stenhousemuir) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and has represented Dunfermline East in the Scottish Parliament since 1999.

Eadie was educated at Larbert High School, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics where she received a Certificate in Trade Union Studies (Industrial Relations Department) in 1970. She is a member of the Church of Scotland, and is married with two grown up daughters. Prior to her election to Holyrood was a full time trade union official for the GMB and a councillor on Fife Council. Her father-in-law is former MP for Midlothian Alex Eadie. Eadie has worked for her father-in-law and Harry Ewing at Westminster, and was on James Callaghan's general election campaign team.

At Holyrood Eadie has been a member of the Transport and Environment Committee and served as Depute Convener of the Public Petitions Committee in the first session of the Scottish Parliament. Until 2003 Helen served as a member of the European Committee and currently in the second session of the Scottish Parliament is a member of both the Health Committee and the Public Petitions Committee.

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MidScotlandFife MSPs
* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/helen_eadie/index.htm Helen Eadie MSP] Biography at Scottish Parliament website
* [http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/dunfermlineeast1/ Helen Eadie MSP] Biography at Labour party website
* [http://www.fifelabour.org.uk/HelenEadie/index.htm Helen Eadie MSP] Helen's pages on the Fife Labour website