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Ann Coffey
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'''(Marilyn) Ann Coffey''' (born
31 August 1946)
United Kingdom British politician. She is the
Labour Party (UK) Labour Member of Parliament for
Stockport (UK Parliament constituency) Stockport.
Born Ann Brown, the daughter of a
Royal Air Force officer, in
Inverness she was educated variously at the
Nairn Academy; the
Bodmin Grammar School; the
Bushey Grammar School; the
London South Bank University Polytechnic of South Bank, London (where she was awarded a
Bachelor of Science in
Sociology 1967 and was elected the vice president of the
students' union); the
Walsall College of Education (where she received a
Postgraduate Certificate in Education and qualified as a
teacher; and
University of Manchester where she obtained her
master's degree#Taught Postgraduate Masters master's degree (MSc) in
psychiatry psychiatric social work.
She began her career as a trainee social worker with the
Metropolitan Borough of Walsall Walsall Social Services in
1971. In
1972 she became a social worker with the
Government of Birmingham Birmingham City Council, moving to
Gwynedd County Council in
1973 and the
Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton in
1974, then to the
Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in
1975, moving once more in
1982 to the
Cheshire County Council. In
1988 she became the
foster care fostering team leader with the
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham until her election to
British House of Commons parliament.
Politically, Ann Coffey was elected as a councillor to the
Stockport Borough Council in
1984 and became its Labour group leader
1988-
1992, stepping down from the council in
1994. She conested the parliamentary seat of
Cheadle (UK Parliament constituency) Cheadle at the
United Kingdom general election, 1987 1987 General Election she finished in third place some 25,000 votes behind the sitting
Conservative Party (UK) Conservative MP
Stephen Day. She was selected to contest the Conservative held marginal Stockport constituency at the
United Kingdom general election, 1992 1992 General Election and she defeated the sitting Conservative MP
Anthony Favell Tony Favell by 1,422 and has remained the MP there since. She made her
maiden speech on
May 12,
1992.[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-05-12/Debate-5.html]
In her first term in Parliament, Coffey served initially as a member of the
Department for Trade and Industry trade and industry select committee until she was promoted by
Tony Blair to become an Opposition
Whip (politics) whip in
1995 and became an Opposition
Department of Health health spokeswoman in
1996. When Labour won the
United Kingdom general election, 1997 1997 General Election, Coffey was appointed as
Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair. In
1998, she became PPS to the
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Alistair Darling and since
2002 in his capacity as the
Secretary of State for Transport.
Coffey voted for the military intervention in
Iraq in
2003 and for the ban on
fox hunting. She was married to Thomas Coffey in
1973 and they have a daughter, they
divorce divorced in
1989 and she has since remarried. She enjoys
photography and
painting.
External links
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ePolitix — Ann Coffey official site
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Guardian Unlimited Politics — Ask Aristotle: Ann Coffey MP
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TheyWorkForYou.com — Ann Coffey MP
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