Caroline Flint

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Caroline Flint

Caroline Flint has been the UK Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley since 1997.

In October 2011 Flint was appointed shadow secretary of state for energy & climate change, in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet.

Flint retained her constituency seat in the 2015 general election, gaining a majority of 8,885 and 46% of the vote.

Political career

According to her website:

In October 2010, Caroline was elected to Labour's Shadow Cabinet and was subsequently apppointed as shadow secretary of state for communities and local government by Labour Leader Ed Miliband.
Having served as the minister for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from October 2008, Caroline left the Government on 5 June 2009.
From January - October 2008, Caroline Flint was appointed to the post of minister for housing. As housing minister, Caroline's achievements included: a £1billion housing package, new shared ownership and shared equity schemes to help first time buyers and a mortgage rescue scheme. She also shortlisted 15 locations for future eco-towns - the future of low carbon living in Britain.
Between June 2007 and January 2008 Caroline was minister of state for employment and welfare reform. Her ministerial responsibilities included the labour market, welfare to work and child poverty. Caroline was also minister for Yorkshire and the Humber between June 2007 and January 2008.
From 2005-2007 Caroline was minister for public health, first as parliamentary under secretary and then as minister of state.
Her first Ministerial appointment, in 2003, was as parliamentary under secretary of state at the Home Office, before being moved to the Department of Health in 2005. [1]

Affiliations

Resources

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Caroline Flint, Nuclear power is not the only answer – but it’s an important part of our future, Labour List, 21 October 2013

Contact

Notes

  1. About Caroline, personal website, acc 22 October 2013