Vernon Coaker is no longer a Member of Parliament. This page has not been updated since 2015.
Biography:
Vernon Coaker was re-elected MP for Gedling on May 7th 2015 with 20307 votes, taking 42.3% of the vote.
Vernon Coaker is Labour MP for Gedling in Nottinghamshire. He won the seat in 1997, taking it from Conservative Junior Minister Andrew Mitchell with a majority of 3,802. The seat was retained in June 2001 with a majority of 5,598, again in 2005 with a majority of 3,811 and one more time in 2010.
In Parliament Vernon Coaker has been the Minister of State for Policing, Secruity and Crime, he was first appointed to this position in the October 2008 reshuffle. Previously Vernon was the Under-secretary of State in the Home Office. Before this he held the position of a Government Whip, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and has also been Parliamentary Private Secterary to Estelle Morris when she was Secretary of State for Education. On 7th October 2013 he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Defence. His other main interests are International Development, Foreign Policy, Education, the Environment and Animal Welfare issues.
Before becoming a Minister he was one of UNICEF’s “Special Friends” in Parliament, and in December 1998 he visited Kosovo as part of a delegation to see at first hand the work they were doing as the lead agency for education in the area. In April 1999 he again went to the former Yugoslavia, visiting refugee camps in Macedonia, again travelling out with UNICEF on a cargo plane carrying emergency aid. His most recent visit to Kosovo was in June 2000. In September 2001 he visited Angola to view UNICEF projects providing housing, education and health programmes for children.
Vernon Coaker has a Constituency Office in Daybrook, and is committed to serving the people of Gedling. He holds at least four surgeries each month around the constituency, and is happy to take up issues on behalf of local people. He also sees constituents at the constituency office, makes a large number of home visits, and organises “roving surgeries” and “supermarket surgeries” throughout the constituency.Before becoming an MP, Vernon Coaker was Deputy Headteacher at Bigwood School in Nottingham. This was one of four schools that he taught at in the local area. The others were Manvers Pierrepont, Arnold Hill School and Bramcote Park.
He had also pursued an active role in local politics as a Borough Councillor. He is married to Jackie, and they have a daughter and a son. In his spare time his interests include sport – he is a keen Spurs fan – walking in the countryside, and keeping up with the media.
Constituency: Gedling
Constituency Address: 2a Parkyn Road, Daybrook, Nottingham, NG5 6BG
Constituency Tel: 0115 920 4224
Date of Birth: 17 June 1953
Email: vernon.coaker.mp@parliament.uk; robertsc@parliament.uk
Party: Labour
Personal Website: www.vernon-coaker-mp.co.uk/
Westminster Address: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Westminster Tel: 020 7219 6627
Twitter: twitter.com/Vernon_CoakerMP
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/VernonCoaker?fref=ts
