Kate Hoey
Kate Hoey is the Labour MP for Vauxhall.[1]
Background
Hoey was born in Antrim, Northern Ireland, where here parents were farmers.[2]
Education
Hoey attended the Belfast Royal Academy and the Ulster College of Physical Education. She subsequently took an economics degree in London.[3]
While a student, she was elected a sabbatical Vice-President of the National Union of Students.[4]
Political career
Hoey contested the Dulwich consituency in the 1983 and 1987 general elections.[5]
She was elected to Parliament on 15 June 1989, winning a by-election in Vauxhall.[6]
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.[7]
Connections
Joan Hoey, sister.
Resources
- Wikipedia: Kate Hoey
Notes
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
