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==Parliamentary career== ==Parliamentary career==

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Alison McGovernMP
Alison McGovern and Shaun Woodward
Member of Parliament
for Wirral South
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byBen Chapman
Majority531 (1.3%)
Councillor for Brunswick Park ward
in Southwark Borough
In office
4 May 2006 – 6 May 2010
Preceded byLilian Naish
Succeeded byJohn Friary
Personal details
Born (1980-12-30) 30 December 1980 (age 44)
Bromborough, Merseyside, England
Political partyLabour
SpouseAshwin Kumar
Alma materUniversity College London
Websitewww.alisonmcgovern.org.uk

Alison McGovern (born 30 December 1980) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Wirral South since 2010.

Early life

The granddaughter of song writer and activist Peter McGovern, she was born in Bromborough, Merseyside, the daughter of a British Railways telecoms engineer father and a mother who was a nurse.

She was educated at Brookhurst Primary School, and then Wirral Grammar School for Girls, where she was the Head Girl from 1998-1999. She then studied Philosophy at University College London.

On graduation, she worked as a researcher at the House of Commons, before handling communications for development projects at Network Rail.

Political life

She was first elected as a Councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the 29 strong group of Labour councillors.

She was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Wirral South in December 2009 due to Ben Chapman's decision to stand down at the next election for family reasons following adverse publicity in The Daily Telegraph over the expenses scandal, and subsequently won the seat in the 2010 general election beating the Conservative Party candidate, Jeff Clarke, by 531 votes.

Parliamentary career

She made her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 3 June 2010 in a debate on European Affairs. In accordance with Parliamentary tradition, she spoke in glowing terms of her constituency and praised her predecessor Ben Chapman, whom she described as "very amiable".

She became former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's parliamentary private secretary in July 2010. On 14 September 2010 she held her first adjournment debate regarding employment prospects for young people in Wirral. In November 2010 she was selected by the PLP to become a member of the International Development Select Committee.

In December 2010 she introduced a private member's bill before Parliament that would amend the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 to broaden the scope of the general duty of library authorities so as to include a duty to provide related cultural facilities alongside the library service. In March 2011 she visited India as part of an International Development Select Committee delegation.

In the 2013 Labour reshuffle, she was added to the Shadow International Development team. In 2014, she was changed to shadow Children and Families

Personal life

She is married to economics consultant Ashwin Kumar, formerly the Passenger Director at Passenger Focus.

References

  1. Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster (3 June 2010). "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 03 Jun 2010 (pt 0014)". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. http://www.gordonbrown.org.uk/gordon-brown-announces-pps
  3. "Weekly Information Bulletin: Session 2010-12: Select Committees". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  4. "The Future of DFID's Programme in India – International Development Committee – Annex: Committee's Visit Programme in India".
  5. http://labourlist.org/2013/10/confirmed-labours-new-frontbench-team-in-full/
  6. http://labourlist.org/2014/11/powell-joins-shadow-cabinet-and-gets-major-campaign-role-as-miliband-shuffles-front-bench/

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byBen Chapman Member of Parliament
for Wirral South
2010–present 		Incumbent

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