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Meg Munn MP
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley
Incumbent
Assumed office  7 June 2001
Preceded by	Bill Michie
Majority	11,370
Born	24 August 1959 (1959-08-24) (age 49) Sheffield
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour Co-operative
Spouse	Dennis Bates
Alma mater	University of Nottingham, University of York

Margaret Patricia Munn (born 24 August 1959, Sheffield), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley, and was first elected at the 2001 general election.

Early life

Munn went to Mundella Primary School on Mundella Place in Norton Woodseats then the comprehensive Rowlinson School on Dyche Lane in Jordanthorpe, Sheffield from 1970 to 1977,¹ (the site became Norton College Campus of Sheffield College, but the old school transferred to Meadowhead School across the road in 1988).

She studied languages at the University of York receiving a BA (Hons) in 1981, later gaining an MA in Social Work at the University of Nottingham in 1986 followed by a Certificate and Diploma in Management Studies from the Open University.

She worked as a Social Work Assistant for Berkshire County Council from 1981-6; as a Social Worker for Nottinghamshire County Council from 1986-90, becoming a Senior Social Worker from 1990-2; as a District Manager for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Social Services from 1992-6, as Child Services Manager for Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council from 1996-9; and Assistant Director of City of York Council Children's Services from 1999-2000.

She joined the Labour Party when fifteen, and was a Councillor on Nottingham City Council from 1987-91. Munn was on the Barnsley Regional Board of the Co-operative Group, the UK's largest co-operative society, and the management committee of Wortley Hall, a national co-operative conference centre. She is a member of USDAW and the Co-operative Party.

Parliamentary career

As a backbencher Munn served on the Education and Skills Select Committee 2001-2003, and the Procedure Select Committee 2001-02. She was closely involved with the Adoption and Children Act 2002; changing national regulations to allow Local Authorities to register body piercing studios; supporting small business, including co-operative and mutual enterprises; encuraging women to go into business; and House of Lord's reform. She also served as Chair of the Women's Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party (2003-5) and Chair of the Parliamentary Co-operative Group (2004-5). She has been vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Voice group.

Munn served as Team Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) at the Department for Education and Skills July 2003 to February 2004, then as PPS to Margaret Hodge, the Minister for Children, from February 2004 to May 2005. Munn was Minister for Women and Equality, based at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) from May 2005 until June 2007. Munn introduced Civil Partnerships in the UK in December 2005. She was responsible for the Equality Act 2006, and involved in the Work and Families Act 2006. She established the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

On 29 June 2007, Munn was appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She had responsibility for Overseas Territories, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean and Central America among other things.² She stood down from the government in October 2008.

In October 2008 Munn was elected Chair of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, established in 1992 to promote democracy mainly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It is a cross-party political organisation that provides funds, supports projects and arranges training in the nuts and bolts of establishing and keeping democractic forms of government.

Munn is also Chair of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and Vice-Chair of the Mexican APPG. Outside Parliament, Munn is currently a Vice-Chair of the group Progress. She was also elected President of the 2006 Co-operative Congress³

Personal life

She is fluent in German, French and conversational Italian and Spanish. Munn has been an active member of the Methodist Church for 30 years. She is married to Dennis Bates, who is also her researcher at Westminster.

Publications

• President's Address to the Co-operative Congress, Co-operatives UK (2006).
• Foreword to Diversity and the Economy, Tony Pilch, Smith Institute (2006).
• A chapter in Labour Looks to Israel, ed P.Richards, Labour Friends of Israel (2005).
• Co-edited Family Fortunes: the New Politics of Childhood, eds Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala & Meg Munn, Fabian Society (2004)

References

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/how-we-are-organised/ministers/m-munn

External links

• Her website
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Meg Munn MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Meg Munn MP
• Voting record at the Public Whip
• Women and Equality Unit
• BBC Politics page

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