Kate Hoey

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Kate Hoey is the Labour MP for Vauxhall.[1] She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sport.[2]

Background

Hoey was born in Antrim, Northern Ireland, where here parents were farmers.[3]

Education

Hoey attended the Belfast Royal Academy and the Ulster College of Physical Education. She subsequently took an economics degree in London.[4]

She was elected a sabbatical Vice-President of the National Union of Students.[5]

During her time, as a student, Hoey was a member of the International Marxist Group.[6]

Political career

Hoey contested the Dulwich consituency in the 1983 and 1987 general elections.[7]

She was elected to Parliament on 15 June 1989, winning a by-election in Vauxhall.[8]

Hoey served as Opposition Spokesperson for Citizen's Charter and Women 1992-93; PPS to Frank Field as Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1997-98; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Home Office (Metropolitan Police, European Union, Judicial Co-operation) 1998-99, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Minister for Sport) 1999-2001.[9]

Connections

Joan Hoey, sister.

Resources

Notes

  1. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  2. Kate Hoey, Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.
  3. Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
  4. Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
  5. Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
  6. Ministers on the up, BBC News, 29 July 1999.
  7. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  8. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  9. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.