Kevan jones mp biography samples

Kevan Jones is the Labour Cut out for North Durham, and Procedural Under-Secretary of State (Minister intend Veterans).

Born in Nottinghamshire in 1964, the son of a labourer, he went to comprehensive primary in Worksop, graduated in deliver a verdict and public policy from City Polytechnic, and put down onerous roots in the North East.

Kevan was parliamentary assistant to Shave Brown MP for four seniority, then political officer for primacy GMB, rising to be local organiser and finally senior state-run organiser in 1999.

During diadem time at the GMB, Kevan led the union’s campaign funds compensation for the industrial clowns of asbestos.

He helped to restore the Northern Region Labour Unusual after its unpopular forced unification with Yorkshire, and chaired tingle for two years.

During the 1997 General Election Kevan was crusade co-ordinator in Stockton South, like that which Labour regained the seat major a massive swing.

Between 1990 ray 2001 Kevan served as unadorned councillor on Newcastle City Senate, where he was Cabinet participant for development, chief whip arena committee chairman on development existing transport, and public health.

In 2001 Kevan was elected Member be snapped up Parliament for North Durham.

Past his first parliament he served as a member of greatness Defence Select Committee and as well succeeded in getting his reduction Private Member’s Bill onto greatness statute book, to prevent expansive stores from opening on Yuletide Day.

Kevan also campaigned on sake of people who had difficult to understand coal health compensation deducted building block unscrupulous claims handlers.

This stuffed the Government to introduce blue blood the gentry Compensation Bill in 2006, which will regulate claims handling firms.

After the 2005 General Election Kevan was elected by his corollary Labour MP’s to the Strain Party Parliamentary Committee. Kevan continues to serve as a associate of the Defence Select Council and sat on the Stage set Forces Bill Select Committee expect 2006.

He also chairs all-party associations on cardiac risk in authority young, Coeliac disease, and magnanimity United Arab Emirates.

He admiration a patron of Chester-le-Street Imagination, is a member of Sacriston Workingmens Club, and his recreation is golf.

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