Gillian Merron
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| Minister of State for Public Health | |
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In office 8 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Dawn Primarolo |
| Succeeded by | Anne Milton (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State) |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Office | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 8 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Meg Munn |
| Succeeded by | Chris Bryant |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development | |
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In office 24 January 2008 – 5 October 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Shriti Vadera |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Lewis |
| Minister for the East Midlands | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 |
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| Preceded by | New Post |
| Succeeded by | Phil Hope |
| Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet Office | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Pat McFadden |
| Succeeded by | Tom Watson |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport | |
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In office 2006–2007 |
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| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
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In office October 2002 – May 2006 |
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Member of Parliament for Lincoln |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth Carlisle |
| Succeeded by | Karl McCartney |
| Majority | 4,613 (12.5%) |
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| Born |
12 April 1959 Ilford, Essex |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Lancaster |
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Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is the Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and has served in the post since July 2014. A former British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010, when she lost her seat. From 2009 to 2010 she was Minister of State with responsibility for Public Health at the Department of Health.
Merron was born in Ilford, Essex to a Jewish family, and was educated at Wanstead High School in Wanstead in east London. She attended Lancaster University Management School, gaining a BSc (Hons) in Management Sciences. She worked in local government, and a NUPE, later UNISON, union official.
Merron joined the Labour Party in 1984. Before becoming an MP, Merron was the vice 'chair' for the regional Labour Party executive. She co-ordinated the shadow cabinet central region campaign in the 1992 general election and the 1994 European Parliamentary Election.
Merron was made a prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) through an all-women shortlist, and was elected to the House of Commons in May 1997 with a majority of 11,130. From 1997 until 2007, when Quentin Davies defected to the Labour Party, she was Lincolnshire's only Labour MP - and the first since Margaret Beckett had the seat in 1979. In the 2005 general election, her majority was 4,613. She lost her seat to the Conservative candidate Karl McCartney in the 2010 general election.
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