Chris Mole

Chris Mole
Chris Mole
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for Transport
In office
9 June 2009 – 6 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Jim Fitzpatrick
Succeeded by Mike Penning
Member of Parliament
for Ipswich
In office
15 October 2001 – 6 May 2010
Preceded by Jamie Cann
Succeeded by Ben Gummer
Majority 5,332 (12.7%)
Personal details
Born 16 March 1958 (1958-03-16) (age 53)
Bromley, Kent
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Shona Gibb
Alma mater University of Kent

Christopher David "Chris" Mole (born 16 March 1958) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich from a by-election in 2001, after the death of Jamie Cann, and was re-elected in 2005. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer, son of former MP John Gummer.

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Early life

Mole attended Dulwich College. He gained a degree in Electronics from the University of Kent and moved to Ipswich in 1981 to work at the BT Laboratories at Martlesham Heath. During that time he served as Branch Secretary of the Research Branch of the white collar BT-only union then called the STE. It is now a cross industry union called [Connect (trade union)| Connect].

He was first elected to Suffolk County Council in 1985 and represented a central Ipswich division for 18 years. He was Deputy Chair of EEDA, the regional development agency for the East of England, from 1998 and was Leader of Suffolk County Council from 1993, named Council of the Year 2001, until his election as Member of Parliament. He was a governor of Handford Hall Primary School, Ipswich.

Parliamentary career

In the 2001 parliament, Mole served as a member of the Select Committee that scrutinised the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deregulation and Regulatory Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. He steered his Private Member's Bill onto the Statute Book where it became the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, extending the concept of legal deposit to electronic records; the Bill was strongly promoted by the British Library [1]

Mole was appointed in June 2005 to the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary PPS to the Local Government Minister Phil Woolas. He resigned from this position on 6 September 2006 after signing a letter calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.[2] When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Mole was recalled to a PPS position, taking the post of PPS to John Healey, the Minister of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government on 28 June 2007. From 16 January 2007 until 20 August 2008, Mole was a member of the Science and Technology Committee.[3]

In October 2008 he was made an Assistant Whip in the Labour government and acted as Assistant Regional Minister with Barbara Follett, the Regional Minister for the East of England. He became a minister for the first time in the June 2009 reshuffle when he was appointed to the Department for Transport as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.

Personal life

He lives in east Ipswich with his wife Shona (née Gibb), a systems analyst for BT in Ipswich, and their two sons Edward (born 1992) and Thomas (born 1994).

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Jamie Cann
Member of Parliament for Ipswich
20012010
Succeeded by
Ben Gummer

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