Profile

Former Labour MP for Burnley

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — 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

• Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury (10 Jun 2009 to 18 Jun 2009)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions ( 6 Oct 2008 to 10 Jun 2009)
• Economic Secretary, HM Treasury (28 Jun 2007 to 6 Oct 2008)
• PPS (Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE, Minister of State), Department of Trade and Industry (20 Nov 2006 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 16 Jan 2007)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Peter Pike
• Daniel Jones
• Wilfrid Burke
• Gordon Campbell
• Arthur Henderson
• David Irving
• Philip Morrell
• Gerald Arbuthnot
• Fred Maddison
• William Mitchell
• Philip Stanhope
• Jabez Balfour
• John Slagg
• Peter Rylands
• Richard Shaw

Future MPs in this constituency

• Gordon Birtwistle
• Julie Cooper
• Antony Higginbotham