Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
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Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities | |
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Appointer | Leader of the Opposition |
Website | The Shadow Cabinet |
The Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities (previously Shadow Minister for Women and Shadow Minister for Women and Equality) is a position in the United Kingdom's Official Opposition, often held together with a Shadow Cabinet post, but sometimes as a Shadow Cabinet post in its own right. The Shadow Minister is responsible for holding the Minister for Women and Equalities, responsible for the Government Equalities Office, to account and is responsible for Opposition policy on women's and equality issues.
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Shadow Ministers
Shadow Minister | Took office | Left office | Political party | Leader of the Opposition | ||
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Jo Richardson | 31 October 1983[1] | 18 July 1992 | Labour | Neil Kinnock | ||
Mo Mowlam | 18 July 1992[2] | 21 October 1993 | Labour | John Smith |
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Clare Short | 60px | 21 October 1993[3] | 19 October 1995 | Labour | ||
Tony Blair | ||||||
Tessa Jowell | 19 October 1995[4] | 26 July 1996[n 1] | Labour | |||
Janet Anderson | 26 July 1996[n 1] | 2 May 1997 | Labour | |||
Gillian Shephard | 2 May 1997 | Unknown | Conservative | John Major | ||
Unclear[n 2] | Conservative | William Hague | ||||
Theresa May | 15 June 1999 | 14 September 2001 | Conservative | |||
Caroline Spelman | 14 September 2001 | 15 March 2004 | Conservative | Iain Duncan Smith | ||
Michael Howard | ||||||
Eleanor Laing | 15 March 2004 | 2 July 2007 | Conservative | |||
David Cameron | ||||||
Theresa May | 2 July 2007 | 11 May 2010 | Conservative | |||
Yvette Cooper | 60px | 20 May 2010 | 7 October 2013 | Labour | Harriet Harman | |
Ed Miliband | ||||||
Gloria De Piero | 60px | 7 October 2013 | 14 September 2015 | Labour | ||
Harriet Harman | ||||||
Kate Green | 60px | 14 September 2015 | Incumbent | Labour | Jeremy Corbyn |
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Blair conducted a minor reshuffle of his shadow cabinet on 26 July 1996. As Anderson was in post and Shadow Minister for Women by 21 August 1996[5] (and Jowell as a Shadow Health minister by 15 September),[6] the change likely occurred at that 26 July resuffle.
- ↑ No sources currently note any individual as holding this role for the Conservatives when Labour entered Government at the 1997 election and created the position of Minister for Women, but no source proves there was not one. Before the Conservatives' defeat, Gillian Shephard, John Major's Education Secretary, spoke on women's issues. She largely delegated the responsibility to a junior minister, Cheryl Gillan.[7] The only parliamentary debate that obviously fell under the portfolio of the Minister for Women during the term of Harriet Harman (May 1997 to July 1998) occurred on 27 February 1998. It was a set-piece debate, meaning the order of speakers was opening minister, opening shadow minister, backbenchers, closing shadow minister, closing minister. Harman opened, followed by Shepard. The closing speeches were given by Gillan for the Conservatives and Joan Ruddock, Harman's deputy, for the Government.[8] A similar debate was held on 8 March 1999. The Minister for Women was a peer, Baroness Jay of Paddington, so her deputy, Tessa Jowell, opened the debate for the Government; Theresa May opened for the Conservatives. Virginia Bottomley closed for the Opposition, and Margaret Hodge did so for Labour.[9]
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