Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the LabourMember of Parliament for Lincoln. She is currently Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport. April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the main democratic socialist [1] political party in the United Kingdom. ... 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. ... Lincoln is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, in the United Kingdom government structure, is a minister who is junior to a Minister of State who is then junior to a Secretary of State. ... In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the transport network. ...
Educated at Wanstead High School and the University of Lancaster, she worked as a local government officer and a UNISON trade union official before being elected to the House of Commons in 1997. Lancaster University is a campus university located about three miles south of Lancaster, England. ... UNISON logo UNISON is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom, with over 1. ...
Until May 2006 she was a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...
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The Labour Party - Gillian Merron MP official biography
Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
GillianMerron : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will change the arrangements for overseas domestic workers who accompany their employers to the United Kingdom.
GillianMerron : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent changes there have been to United Nations sanctions against (a) Somalia, (b) the former Republic of Yugoslavia and (c) Sudan.
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