Profile

Former Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde

Entered the House of Commons on 7 June 2001 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election

• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Other offices held in the past

• Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (24 Jan 2008 to 10 Jun 2009)
• Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media & Sport (28 Jun 2007 to 24 Jan 2008)
• Minister of State (Pensions Reform), Department for Work and Pensions ( 6 Jun 2006 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions ( 8 May 2006 to 6 Jun 2006)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Media and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport (23 May 2005 to 8 May 2006)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Culture, Media & Sport (11 May 2005 to 23 May 2005)
• PPS (Rt Hon Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State), Cabinet Office (10 Apr 2005 to 11 Apr 2005)
• Assistant Whip (17 Dec 2004 to 11 May 2005)
• PPS (Rt Hon Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State), Department for Education and Skills (16 Dec 2004 to 10 Apr 2005)
• PPS (Ms Ruth Kelly, Minister of State), Cabinet Office ( 2 Nov 2004 to 16 Dec 2004)
• PPS (Ms Ruth Kelly, Financial Secretary), HM Treasury (13 May 2004 to 2 Nov 2004)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Tom Pendry
• Fred Blackburn
• Gordon Lang
• Horace Cox
• Philip Dunne
• Sydney Hope
• Hugh Lawrie
• Edmund Wood
• John Tattersall
• John Rhodes
• John Wood

Future MPs in this constituency

• Jonathan Reynolds