Kate Hoey is no longer a Member of Parliament. This page has not been updated since 2015.:
Kate Hoey was re-elected MP for Vauxhall on May 7th 2015 with 25778 votes, taking 53.8% of the vote.
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
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
Twitter: @KateHoeyMP
