Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September1953, Glasgow) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labourmember of Parliament for the Slough parliamentary constituency. She serves at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for Criminal Justice and Offender Management. September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city and unitary council, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Slough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo , or Small or Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. ...
She was first elected to Parliament in 1997. She was a councillor and Leader of the Labour Group on Wandsworth Council from 1988 to 1990. She has been a primary school teacher and Chair of Liberty. 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wandsworth is a place by the River Thames in south London. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. ...
Her father, the late Sir Ian Mactaggart Bt, was a multimillionaire Glasgow property developer, Tory candidate and Europhobe. Her mother's father, Sir Herbert Williams Bt, was a Conservative Member of Parliament for 27 years. Her great-grandfather however was Sir John Mactaggart, the first treasurer of the first ever branch of Keir Hardie's Labour party. Sir Herbert Geraint Williams, Bt, (2 December 1884-25 July 1954) was a United Kingdom politician and Conservative Member of Parliament. ... James Keir Hardie (August 15, 1856 - September 26, 1915) was a Scottish-born socialist and labour leader, and the first Labour MP to be elected to the UK Parliament. ...
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Fiona Mactaggart official site
Home Office - Fiona Mactaggart MP official biography
FionaMactaggart: I think that people think that the regulatory regime is actually more onerous for these kind of charities than in practice it is because it is relatively easy for the overwhelming majority of grant-giving charities to demonstrate quite straightforwardly that they are meeting the compliance objective.
FionaMactaggart: Because that is a duty of all public bodies at all times, to act proportionately and fairly, and if you were to put that in one kind of legislation, it would imply that in other bits of legislation you were expecting people to be disproportionate and unfair.
FionaMactaggart: I do not think they thought it through, no. I think they were focusing on charitable trading which was a longer purpose of the charity, and they did not think about the fact that the frame that they did it with was for things which were completely non connected with the purpose.
No one was more surprised than new Labour MP FionaMactaggart to find herself described as "disabled" in newspaper headlines when she disclosed in a Commons debate she was infertile and suffered from MS.
FionaMactaggart stands out among Labour's new women: her frequent contributions display a high intelligence, independence of mind and special sensitivity to the needs of the many immigrants in her Slough constituency.
But her politics owes more to Sir John Mactaggart, her great-grandfather, who was the first treasurer of the first ever branch of Keir Hardie's Labour party.
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