Gillian Merron

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office = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Office
term_start = 5 October 2008
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predecessor = Meg Munn
successor = Incumbent
primeminister = Gordon Brown
office2 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development
term_start2 = 24 January 2008
term_end2 = 5 October 2008
predecessor2 = Shriti Vadera
successor2 = Ivan Lewis
office3 = Minister for the East Midlands
term_start3 = 28 June 2007
term_end3 = 24 January 2008
predecessor3 = New Post
successor3 = Phil Hope
office4 = Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet Office
term_start4 = 28 June 2007
term_end4 = 24 January 2008
predecessor4 = Pat McFadden
successor4 = Tom Watson
office5 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
term_start5 = 2006
term_end5 = 2007
office6 = Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
term_start6 = October 2002
term_end6 = May 2006
constituency_MP7 = Lincoln
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majority7 = 4,613 (12.5%)
predecessor7 = Kenneth Carlisle
successor7 = Incumbent
term_start7 = 1 May 1997
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|04|12|df=yes
birth_place = Ilford, Essex
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nationality = British
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party = Labour
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alma_mater = University of Lancaster
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Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln. She is currently a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Born in Ilford, Essex and educated at [http://www.wansteadhigh.co.uk Wanstead High School] in Wanstead in east London and the University of Lancaster gaining a BSc(Hons) in Management Sciences, she worked as a local government officer and a UNISON and NUPE regional trade union official. She was elected to the House of Commons in May 1997 with a majority of 11,130 (4,613 in 2005). Until 2007, when Quentin Davies defected to the Labour Party, She was Lincolnshire's only Labour MP - and the first since Margaret Beckett had the seat in 1979.

From October 2002 until May 2006 she was a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. She then moved to the Department for Transport, where she worked until the reshuffle on 29 June 2007, when she became a minister at the Cabinet Office and the first ever minister of the East Midlands. Following Peter Hain's resignation on 24 January 2008 Merron was reshuffled again, becoming a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for International Development. Following Gordon Brown's latest reshuffle of 5 October 2008, Merron was moved to the Foreign Office in the same post, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.

Voting record

How Gillian Merron voted on key issues since 2001 ( [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/gillian_merron/lincoln They Work For You] ):

* Voted for introducing a smoking ban.
* Voted for introducing ID cards.
* Voted for introducing foundation hospitals.
* Voted for introducing student top-up fees.
* Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
* Voted for the Iraq war.
* Voted against investigating the Iraq war.
* Voted for replacing Trident.
* Voted for the hunting ban.
* Voted for equal gay rights.

External links

* [http://www.gillianmerron.labour.co.uk Gillian Merron MP's Website]
* [http://www.labour.org.uk/maps/locinfo.phtml?ctid=2452 The Labour Party - Gillian Merron MP]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3603,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Gillian Merron MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/gillian_merron/lincoln TheyWorkForYou.com - Gillian Merron MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/373.stm BBC Politics page]