Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities

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Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
Incumbent
Kate Green

since 14 September 2015
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.

Shadow Ministers

Shadow Minister Took office Left office Political party Leader of the Opposition
Jo Richardson 31 October 1983[1] 18 July 1992 Labour Neil Kinnock
Mo Mowlam 18 July 1992[2] 21 October 1993 Labour  
 
John Smith
 
 
Clare Short 60px 21 October 1993[3] 19 October 1995 Labour
Tony Blair
Tessa Jowell Tessa Jowell Jan 2007.jpg 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 Theresa May - Home Secretary and minister for women and equality.jpg 15 June 1999 14 September 2001 Conservative
Caroline Spelman Caroline Spelman Official.jpg 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 Theresa May - Home Secretary and minister for women and equality.jpg 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. 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.
  2. 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]

References

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