Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin

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Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin

Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin PC (born November 26, 1944 ) is a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the European Parliament for ten years and a member of the House of Commons for 18 years and has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Member of the European Parliament and Member of the House of Commons

Joyce Quin, a great niece of long-time Labor MP Joshua Ritson , studied at Newcastle University and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) after attending Whitley Bay Grammar School and was subsequently a lecturer and tutor for the French Language at the University of Bath and the University of Durham . In the meantime, between 1969 and 1972, she worked as a research assistant in the international department of the Labor Party headquarters.

In the first European elections in 1979 she was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Tyne & Wear as a member of the European Parliament and, after her re-election in the European elections in 1984, was also a member of this during the second legislative period until 1989.

At the same time, she was elected for the first time in the general election on June 11, 1987 as a member of the House of Commons, in which she first the constituency of Gateshead East and most recently since the election from May 1, 1997 to the general election on May 5, 2005 the constituency of Gateshead East and Washington West represented. At the beginning of their membership of this Parliament it from 1987 to 1989, member of the House Committees on the treasure ( Treasury ) and the civil service and then 1989-1992 spokeswoman for the opposition Labor faction of Trade and Industry. She then held the position of opposition spokeswoman for employment between 1992 and 1997 and was also the opposition spokeswoman for Europe from 1993 to 1997. During this time she was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1992 to 1996 .

Minister of State and Member of the House of Lords

After the Labor Party won the general election on May 1, 1997, and Prime Minister Tony Blair took office , Joyce Quin, who was appointed Privy Councilor in 1998 , was first Minister of State in the Home Office and was then from July 28, 1998 and 28 July 1999 Minister of State for Europe in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ). Most recently she was Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1999 to 2001. In addition, she was a member of the Privy Council Committee for the Supervision of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act from 2002 to 2005 and a member of the Parliament's Joint Committee on House Reforms from 2003 to 2005 .

Joyce Quin, who became an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sunderland in 1986 and St Mary's College, University of Durham in 1993, became visiting professor at the Center for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University in 2003 and an honorary lecturer at the University of Durham.

Joyce Quin, who became Freeman of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 2006, was raised to the nobility as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Quin , of Gateshead in the County of Tyne and Wear, by a letters patent dated May 30, 2006 . Shortly thereafter took place on 13 June 2006 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords she belongs to the Labor Party faction. In 2010 Baroness Quin, who has been chairwoman of the French- British Council since 2008 , was honored with the Officer's Cross of the French Legion of Honor . Between 2010 and 2011, she was the House of Lords opposition spokesperson for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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SURNAME Quin, Joyce, Baroness Quin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quin, Joyce Gwendolen, Baroness Quin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1944