Eric Joyce

Eric Joyce is no longer a Member of Parliament.  This page has not been updated since 2015.

Biography:

Eric Joyce was re-elected MP for Falkirk in May 2010 with a majority of 7,843.

Joyce was suspended from Labour in 2012 after he was arrested on suspicion of assault, and on 12 March 2012 officially resigned from the party.

Between 1981 and 1987, he took time away from the army to attend technical college and university where he gained a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from Stirling University. After being commissioned as an army officer in 1987 he continued his studies part-time and has an MA in Education from Bath University and an MBA from Keele University.

Mr Joyce was elected MP for Falkirk West in the narrowly-won by-election of December 2000. At the subsequent General Elections of 2001 and 2005 he increased his majority on each occasion. He served as a member of the Scottish Affairs and the Procedures select committees at Westminster.

Since 2003 Mr Joyce has served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to ministers Mike O’Brien MP, when O’Brien was the Minister for Energy at the Department of Trade and Industry and Margaret Hodge MP, Minister for Industry and the Regions at the Department of Trade and Industry.

He was the PPS to John Hutton who was the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2006-2007, the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 2007-2008 before becoming the Secretary of State for Defence in the October 2008 re-shuffle.

He resigned as the PPS to Bob Ainsworth on 3 September 2009 citing concerns over the war in Afghanistan.

Constituency: Falkirk

Constituency Address: 37 Church Walk, Denny, FK6 6DF

Constituency Tel: 01324 823200

Date of Birth: 13 October 1960

Email: mcintyrem@parliament.uk

Party: Labour

Personal Website: ericjoyce.co.uk

Twitter: @ericjoyce