John Healey

John Healey

Infobox Politician
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office = Financial Secretary to the Treasury
term_start = 6 May 2005
term_end = 28 June 2007
primeminister = Tony Blair
predecessor = Stephen Timms
successor = Jane Kennedy
office2 = Economic Secretary to the Treasury
term_start2 = 15 December 2002
term_end2 = 6 May 2005
predecessor2 = Ruth Kelly
successor2 = Ed Balls
constituency_MP3 = Wentworth
majority3 = 15,056
term_start3 = 1 May 1997
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predecessor3 = Peter Hardy
successor3 = Incumbent
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birth_place = Wakefield
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nationality = British
spouse = Jackie Bate
party = Labour
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John Healey (born 13 February, 1960) is the British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wentworth and Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Early life

John Healey was born in Wakefield and was educated at the [http://ccgi.ladylumleys.plus.com Lady Lumley's] Comprehensive School on "Swainsea Lane" in Pickering and at the independent St Peter's School, York. Healey attended Christ's College, Cambridge where he received a BA in 1982. He worked as a journalist and the deputy editor of the internal magazine of the Palace of Westminster, "The House Magazine" for a year in 1983. In 1984 he became a full-time disability rights campaigner for several national charities.

Healey joined Issues Communications in 1990 as a campaign manager before becoming the head of communications at the Manufacturing, Science and Finance trade union in 1992. He was appointed as the campaign director with the Trades Union Congress in 1994 in which capacity he remained until his election to the House of Commons. He was also a tutor at the Open University Business School.

Healey's first venture into Parliamentary politics was an unsuccessful attempt to gain the Ryedale seat at the 1992 General Election. As the Labour candidate, Healey finished in third place, some 30,076 votes behind the sitting Conservative John Greenway.

Member of Parliament

At the 1997 General Election, Healey successfully contested the seat of Wentworth, which had become available following the retirement of the Labour MP Peter Hardy. Healey held the seat with a majority of 23,959 and has remained the MP to date.

In government

Healey served as a member of the education and employment select committee from 1997 until he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in 1999. He was given an executive position following the 2001 General Election and his appointment as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Education and Skills.

Healey was promoted in 2002 to the position of Economic Secretary to the Treasury and nominally again following the 2005 General Election since when he has served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

Healey's responsibilities included government statistics, (including the Office of National Statistics which is to become an independent body after passage of the current bill he has been steering through parliament), along with implementation of the government's 10 year strategy for science and innovation, which directs spending of around £5 billion a year. Inter alia, this has led to the controversial abolition of the Research Assessment Exercise. However, he has never made a speech on this area of responsibility and does not answer questions about it.

On 29 June 2007, he was moved to the Department for Communities and Local Government as a result of a government reshuffle. His position as Financial Secretary was filled by Jane Kennedy. Shortly after his appointment he was announced as the Floods Recovery Minister, with responsibility for assisting the recovery from recent widespread flooding across the United Kingdom. It was announced he would be appointed to the Privy Council in October 2008.

election controversy

Although John Healey had not been the first choice as the Labour candidate in Wentworth for the 1997 General Election he won by a convincing margin after a long campaign. It was rumoured that the Labour leadership had tried to insert the former Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon, Alan Howarth, who had "crossed the floor" and joined the Labour Party in 1995, however this is not true.

The other prospective candidates were journalist Yvette Cooper who went on to be selected for Pontefract and Castleford and Rotherham Cllrs. Ken Wyatt and Cllr. Roger Stone. Finally Healey was chosen for this very safe Labour seat.

Cllr. Stone went on to become leader of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council where he has a close and positive working relationship with all three of the borough's MPs.

Personal life

Healey married Jackie Bate on October 25 1993 in Lambeth and they have a son, Alex, born May 1995. He opposes the minimum wage being set at a different level for young people and he campaigns for medals to be awarded to Suez Canal Zone veterans. He is a member of Amnesty International.

External links

* [http://www.johnhealeymp.co.uk John Healey] official site
* [http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1122759 Department for Communities and Local Government - Official Biography]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-2333,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: John Healey MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/john_healey/wentworth TheyWorkForYou.com - John Healey MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/622.stm BBC Politics]


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