Paul Goggins (born 16 June 1953) is a British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wythenshawe and Sale East, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office. June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing 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. ... 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. ... The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) is an arm of the United Kingdom government, responsible for Northern Ireland affairs. ...

Paul Goggins was born in Manchester and was educated locally at St Bede's College, before going on to study at the Roman Catholic seminary Ushaw College in Durham (1971-1973). Manchester is a city in the United Kingdom, famous for being the worlds first industrial city and considered by many to be UKs second city [1][2]. It is a centre of the arts, the media and big business. ... St Bedes College, Main Building St. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... A seminary is a specialized university-like institution for the purpose of instructing students in religion, often in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy. ... Ushaw College is a Roman Catholic seminary, founded at Douai in France in 1568, which moved to Ushaw Moor, four miles west of Durham in England in 1808 and became a Licensed Hall of the University of Durham in 1968. ... Durham (IPA: locally, in RP) is a small city and main settlement of the City of Durham district of County Durham in North East England. ...

He went on to study at the Birmingham Polytechnic where he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people in 1976. The University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE) is a major university, located in the city of Birmingham, England. ... In the United States, the child welfare system is a set of government services designed to protect children and encourage family stability. ...

He later received a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work from the Manchester Polytechnic in 1982. Social work is a helping profession focused on social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being (IASSW & IFSW 2001). ... Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in Manchester, England. ...

He worked as a child care worker with the Liverpool Catholic Social Services for a year in 1974, before becoming an officer in charge at the Wigan Children's Home in 1976. He was appointed as project director for the NCH Action for Children in Salford in 1984. He became the national director for Church Action in Poverty, a national church-based campaigning organisation, in 1989 where he remained until his election to Westminster. Map sources for Wigan at grid reference SD583055 Wigan is a large town in the North West of England, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, lying in the historic county of Lancashire. ... Official NCH logo NCH (formerly National Childrens Home) is a United Kingdom-based charity providing services for children. ... Some of the 1960s built high rise apartment blocks that have had recent multi-million Pound refurbishment Salford is a city in Northwest England, UK. It is part of the City of Salford - a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, historically part of the county of Lancashire. ... The Palace of Westminster, known also as the Houses of Parliament, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their sittings. ...

He was elected as a councillor in the City of Salford for eight years in 1990. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for the newly created Wythenshawe and Sale East seat vacated by the retirement of Alf Morris, the former veteran Labour MP for Wythenshawe. Goggins held the seat with a majority of 15,019 and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on 20 May 1997 (see [[1]]). Salford is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester in North West England. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester, PC 1979, AO 1991, QSO 1989, MA (Oxon), BA (Oxon), DipEd (born 23 March 1928) is a British Labour Co-operative politician and disability campaigner. ... Wythenshawe Hall Wythenshawe is a housing estate to the south of Manchester. ... A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He served on the social security select committee from 1997 until he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Minister of State at the Department of Social Security John Denham in 1998, moving with Denham to the Department of Health in 1999. The Department of Social Security (DSS) was until 2001 a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. ... A Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... John Denham is the name of either: John Yorke Denham (b. ... Many governments, both national and more local, have a Department of Health. This article is about the British one. ...

In 2000 he was appointed PPS to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett, and he remained Blunketts's PPS following the 2001 General Election in his new position as Home Secretary. The Secretary of State for Education and Skills is the chief minister of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom government. ... David Blunkett Lets see how quickly some sad Wikipedia editor sitting alone in their sad little bedroom, takes to remove this! Wankers. ... Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Secretary of State for the Home Department, known as the Home Secretary, is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order (except in Scotland). ...

He was promoted to the government of Tony Blair in 2003, where he was made the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office with the role of prisons and probation minister. He became the parliamentary under Secretary for State with responsibility for the voluntary and community sector. He forged links with various community and voluntary sector organisations such as ARVAC The Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector (see [[2]]). In May 2006, he was appointed as a junior minister at the Northern Ireland Office. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service, and MP for Sedgefield. ... 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. ... 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. ... Probation is the suspension of a prison or jail sentence - the criminal who is on probation has been convicted of a crime, but instead of serving prison time, has been found by the Court to be amenable to probation and will be returned to the community for a period in... Look up May in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) is an arm of the United Kingdom government, responsible for Northern Ireland affairs. ...

He is the co-founder of the All Party Parliamentary Friends of CAFOD group and is Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on poverty. He has been married to Wyn Bartley since 1977 and they have two sons and a daughter. The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), previously known as the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, is a United Kingdom-based international aid agency working to alleviate poverty and suffering in developing countries. ... World map showing percentage of people living under national poverty lines. ...

He is a season ticket holder at Manchester City F.C. A member of the Christian Socialist Movement who has broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day slot on the Today programme. In an interview on BBC Radio Five Live in 2004 he claimed that his family was the inspiration for the Mrs. Goggins character in the Postman Pat series (see [[3]]). The Manchester International Airport lies within his constituency boundaries. In sports, a season ticket is a ticket that grants the holder access to all regular-season home games for one season without additional charges. ... Manchester City Football Club is a football club based in Manchester, United Kingdom. ... Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two things as being interconnected, perhaps because one derives from the other. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Thought for the Day is a short religious radio programme, broadcast as part of the Today programme on the BBCs Radio 4 at around 7:45 am every weekday morning(BBC 2005). ... Today, commonly referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4s long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. ... BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... Postman Pat is a BBC stop motion animated childrens television series aimed at pre-school children, concerning the adventures of Pat, a postman in the (fictional) Yorkshire village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of Longsleddale in Cumbria). ... Manchester International Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an airport in Manchester, England. ...

Mr Goggins has in recent times used his ministerial position to promote legislation that would target many sadomasochists, fetishists and other sexual minorities by proposing to criminalise possession of so-called "Extreme Pornography".

Critics of his efforts maintain that any such move would be a clear violation of Human Rights under EU law, and would result in the persecution of disproportionately high numbers of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community.

His attempts to pass legislation in this regard are strongly opposed by a coalition of libertarian, free speech, and sexual minority action groups under the umbrella of the 'backlash' campaign.

- *Backlash-UK opposes Goggins' anti-SM/Fetish images proposals