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Jack Straw is a former MP for Blackburn.

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Proffil

Cyn Llafur MP am Blackburn

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 3 Mai 1979 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Gadawodd y Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 30 Mawrth 2015 — Etholiad cyffredinol

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

• Deputy Prime Minister
• Home Department
• International Development
• Justice
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Departmental Public Expenditure
• Electoral Register
• Constituencies: Boundary Commissions
• Departmental Pay
• Human Rights

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Chair, House of Commons Governance Committee (10 Med 2014 to 17 Rha 2014)
• Chair, House of Commons Governance Committee (10 Med 2014 to 17 Rha 2014)
• Shadow Deputy Prime Minister (12 Mai 2010 to 25 Med 2010)
• Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice (12 Mai 2010 to 8 Hyd 2010)
• The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (28 Meh 2007 to 6 Mai 2010)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission ( 2 Meh 2007 to 6 Mai 2010)
• Chair, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (17 Mai 2006 to 26 Gor 2007)
• Member, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (15 Mai 2006 to 17 Mai 2006)
• Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal ( 5 Mai 2006 to 28 Meh 2007)
• Member, Members Estimate Committee (29 Ion 2004 to 28 Meh 2007)
• Foreign Secretary ( 8 Meh 2001 to 5 Mai 2006)
• The Secretary of State for the Home Department ( 2 Mai 1997 to 8 Meh 2001)
• Shadow Secretary of State (Home Office) (21 Gor 1994 to 1 Mai 1997)
• Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee ( 1 Gor 1994 to 1 Gor 1995)
• Shadow Secretary of State (Environment) ( 9 Ebr 1992 to 28 Gor 1994)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Education (11 Meh 1987 to 9 Ebr 1992)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) ( 1 Meh 1983 to 1 Meh 1987)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Treasury) ( 1 Meh 1980 to 1 Meh 1983)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Barbara Castle
• John Edwards
• Barbara Castle
• Walter Smiles
• George Elliston
• Walter Smiles
• Mary Hamilton
• Thomas Gill
• John Duckworth
• Sydney Henn
• John Duckworth
• Sydney Henn
• Henry Norman
• Sydney Henn
• Henry Norman
• Percy Dean
• Henry Norman
• Philip Snowden
• Thomas Barclay
• Philip Snowden
• William Hornby
• William Coddington
• William Hornby
• William Coddington
• William Hornby
• William Coddington
• Robert Peel
• William Briggs
• William Coddington
• Daniel Thwaites
• William Briggs
• Henry Feilden
• Edward Hornby
• William Hornby
• Joseph Feilden
• William Hornby
• Joseph Feilden
• James Pilkington
• William Hornby
• James Pilkington
• William Hornby
• Montague Feilden
• William Eccles
• James Pilkington
• John Hornby
• William Feilden
• John Hornby
• William Feilden
• William Turner
• John Fort
• William Turner
• William Feilden
• John Fort
• William Turner
• William Feilden

Future MPs in this constituency

• Kate Hollern
• Adnan Hussain

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Elections for Positions in the House: Backbench Business — Valedictory Debate 26 Mar 2015

  I agree with the right hon. Gentleman about the felicity of the 1997 intake.

• Elections for Positions in the House: Backbench Business — Valedictory Debate 26 Mar 2015

  It is a pleasure to see the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Sir John Stanley) in his place. I first stood for Parliament in February 1974; I was able to discover that there were 14,000 socialists in Tonbridge and Malling, but unfortunately they were 10,000 fewer than the number of Conservatives who voted for the right hon. Gentleman. I took his and his constituents’ advice and...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Today’s Business of the House 26 Mar 2015

  The Leader of the House must know that there is always a reason for taking urgent action without giving notice to the Opposition. I hope he will acknowledge that the reasons in this case are partisan—[Interruption.] Mr Speaker will confirm this—it is a matter of public record: I did not support Mr Speaker in the election in 2009. I nominated the right hon. Member for North West Hampshire...

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Jack Straw