Siobhain Ann McDonagh (born 20 February 1960, London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament for the Mitcham and Morden constituency in London. February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Mitcham and Morden is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

She was first elected in 1997 on her third attempt, defeating the Conservative incumbent, Dame Angela Rumbold, who was her opponent in both 1987 and 1992 General Elections. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative & Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), and the largest in terms of public membership. ... Dame Angela Christina Rosemary Rumbold (born 11 August 1932) is a British Conservative politician. ...

Prior to being elected to Parliament she worked as a Development Manager for Battersea Churches Housing Trust. She also served as a councillor on London Borough of Merton for Colliers Wood ward between 1982 and 1998, chairing the Housing Committee between 1990 and 1995 where she was instrumental in the rebuilding of Phipps Bridge Estate. The London Borough of Merton is a London borough in south west London. ... Colliers Wood is an area in south London, England in the London Borough of Merton. ...

McDonagh is of Irish descent and was educated at the Holy Cross Secondary School and University of Essex. Her sister is Baroness McDonagh of Mitcham and Morden who was General Secretary of the Labour Party between 1998 and 2001 and was instrumental in the modernisation of the Labour Party in both its campaigning and policy. The University of Essex is a British plate glass university. ... Margaret Josephine McDonagh, Baroness McDonagh is a British Labour Party politician and was General Secretary of the Party from 1998 to 2001. ... The General Secretary is the most senior employee of the British Labour Party. ...

Siobhain McDonagh has a record of loyalty to the Labour Government and has not broken the Labour whip since being elected in 1997. Locally, she generally has a reputation for being an assidious local Member of Parliament holding a weekly surgery along with regular coffee mornings.

She has been extremely pro-active and instrumental in securing two Academy schools for East Mitcham, an area that suffers from considerable educational underachievement with GCSE results far below the national average. Recently she was also successful along with Merton Council in getting the Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, to locate the new critical care hospital at St Helier near the southern edge of her constituency. This overturned a decision by local health chiefs to locate the hospital at the Sutton Hospital site a number of miles away from her Mitcham and Morden constituency. GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Minister of Health redirects here. ... Patricia Hope Hewitt M.P. (born 22 December 1948) British politician. ... St. ...

After the May 2005 General Election she was appointed as PPS to the Secretary of State for Defence and from May 2006 Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Dr. John Reid. The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... The Secretary of State for Defence is the senior United Kingdom government minister in charge of the Ministry of Defence. ... The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. ... John Reid (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is Home Secretary and Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts. ...

External links

• [1] Siobhain McDonagh MP official site
• [2] Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Siobhain McDonagh MP
• [3] TheyWorkForYou.com - Siobhain McDonagh MP