Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin
Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, of Gateshead in the County of Tyne and Wear, PC ( * November 26, 1944 ) is a British politician of the Labour Party, both for ten years a member of the European Parliament and Members of the House for 18 years of Commons was and is a life member of the House of Lords Peeress since 2006.
Life
Member of the European Parliament and member of Parliament,
Joyce Quin, a great-niece of longtime Labour House of Deputies Joshua Ritson, completed after visiting the Whitley Bay Grammar School to study at Newcastle University and the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE) and was subsequently Lecturer and Tutor for the French language at the University of Bath and the University of Durham. In the meantime, she worked as a research assistant in the international department of the party headquarters of the Labour Party between 1969 and 1972.
She was elected at the first European election in 1979 as a candidate of the Labour Party in the constituency of Tyne & Wear Member of the European Parliament and belonged in this, re-elected in the 1984 European elections during the second term to 1989.
At the same time she was first elected in the general election on 11 June 1987 MPs in the House of Commons, in which they first the constituency of Gateshead East and most recently since the election of 1 May 1997 until the general election on 5 May 2005 the constituency of Gateshead East and Washington West represented. At the start of its parliamentary membership from 1987 to 1989 she was a member of the House Committees on the Treasury (Treasury ) and the civil service, and then from 1989 to 1992 spokesperson for the opposition Labour Group for Trade and Industry. Then she held between 1992 and 1997, the function of the opposition spokeswoman for employment and was at the same time from 1993 to 1997 also spokesperson of the opposition for Europe. During this time she was from 1992 to 1996 a member of the advisory board of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Minister of State and the House of Lords member
After the election of the Labour Party in the general election on 1 May 1997 and the inauguration of Prime Minister Tony Blair Joyce Quin was the appointed Privy Councillor in 1998, first Minister of State at the Home Office (Home Office ), and was then between the July 28, 1998 and the July 28, 1999 Minister of State for Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations (Foreign and Commonwealth Office ). She was most recently from 1999 to 2001 Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. In addition, it was from 2002 to 2005 Member of the Committee of the Privy Council to monitor the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act, and between 2003 and 2005 Member of the Joint Committee of Parliament for the reform of the Upper House.
Joyce Quin, 1993 at St Mary's College, University of Durham in 1986 Honorary Member ( Honorary Fellow ) from the University of Sunderland and, in 2003 was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Durham.
By Letters Patent of 30 May 2006 Joyce Quin was the Freeman of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead was 2006, when Life Peeress charged with the title Baroness Quin, of Gateshead in the County of Tyne and Wear to the peerage. Shortly thereafter, took place on 13 June 2006 their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the Group of the Labour Party. 2010 Baroness Quin was that since 2008, chairman of the French -British Council, awarded the Officer's Cross of the French Legion of Honour. Between 2010 and 2011 she was the speaker of the Opposition in the House of Lords for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.