Catharine Letitia Hoey

Biography

Kate Hoey was re-elected MP for Vauxhall in May 2010 with a majority of 10,651.

She has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Vauxhall, South London since a by-election in 1989.

She was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were farmers. She attended the Belfast Royal Academy and the Ulster College of Physical Education before going on to take an economics degree in London. During her student days she was elected a sabbatical Vice-President of the National Union of Students.

She has always been very interested in sport and was once the Northern Ireland High Jump Champion. She worked as Educational Advisor for a number of football clubs including Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, Chelsea, and Brentford.

This involvement in sport - particularly football and cricket - has continued into her political career. She is now an honorary Vice-President of Surrey County Cricket Club in her constituency.

She was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Frank Field, the Minister for Welfare Reform, after the election of the Labour Government in 1997. Before then she was a member of the Social Security Select Committee and the Broadcasting Select Committee. In July 1998 she was appointed as a Minister in the Home Office before becoming the UK's first female Sports Minister in 1999 - a position she held until the 2001 General Election.

Since then she has been an active backbencher promoting the views and interests of my constituents in Parliament. She is very interested in foreign affairs - visiting Sarajevo at the height of the siege, monitoring the first democratic elections in Angola, and visiting Zimbabwe undercover in 2003 and 2005 to investigate the deteriorating political and humanitarian crisis.

Constituency

Vauxhall

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Constituency Address

Constituency Tel

Date of Birth

21 June 1946

Email

hoeyk@parliament.uk

Party

Labour

Personal Website

http://www.katehoey.com/

Westminster Address

The House of Commons London SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel

0207 219 5989