John Healey

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John Healey

John Healey (* 13. February 1960 in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , England ) is a British politician of the Labor Party , since 1997 a member of the House of Commons is.

Life

Professional activities and Member of the House of Commons

After visiting the Lady Lumley's School in Pickering and the St Peter's School, York Healey studied social and political sciences at Christ's College of the University of Cambridge and was after graduation 1983-1984 deputy editor of The House Magazine , in the internal magazine of British Parliament . In the following years he organized campaigns for people with disabilities for various social associations before he was a tutor at The Open University between 1989 and 1992 . After working as a communications director at the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) union , he was campaign director at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the governing body of British trade unions, between 1994 and 1997 .

After being introduced to the general election in 1992 in the constituency Ryedale sought a mandate in the House of Commons without success, he was in the general election from 1 May 1997 in the constituency Wentworth for the first time in the lower house and heard this on since then, and since he lower house elections Representing the constituency of Wentworth and Dearne on May 6, 2010 . At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he was between 1997 and 1999 a member of the House Committee on Education and Employment and its Subcommittee on Employment and then from 1999 to 2001 Parliamentary Secretary to Chancellor Gordon Brown .

Government offices and opposition politicians

In June 2001 he took over his first government office as "Junior Minister" when he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Education and Performance , where he was last responsible for adult performance until May 2002. He was then appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury and held this office until May 2005. During this time he was a member of the parliamentary committee for the revision of tax laws between December 2004 and April 2005 and subsequently from May 2005 to June 2007 Financial Secretary to the Treasury and at the same time a member of the lower house committee for public budgets and again from December 2005 to January 2009 member of the parliamentary committee for the revision of tax laws.

In June 2007, Healey became Secretary of State in the Department of Towns and Local Government and as such was responsible for local government until June 2009. Between June and September 2009 he was Minister of State in the Ministry of Municipalities and Local Government with responsibility for housing construction and then with responsibility for housing construction and planning. After serving as minister of state in the Ministry of Municipalities and Local Government from November 2009 to March 2010, he was minister of state for housing and planning again until the end of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's term of office . At the same time, he was a member of the speaker's committee from June 2008 to December 2009, and there most recently from December 1980 to December 2009 a member of its electoral commission.

After the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on May 6, 2010, he was appointed to the shadow cabinet of the new Labor leader Ed Miliband and was initially "shadow minister for housing" and since 2010 "shadow health minister". He was also Vice President of the Local Government Association between 2010 and 2011 .

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SURNAME Healey, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakefield , West Yorkshire , England