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Pat McFadden MP

Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs

Pat McFadden MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs

Portfolio

  • Employment Relations
  • ACAS
  • Postal policy and Shareholder Executive: Royal Mail and Post Office
  • Skills
  • Insolvency Service (including companies investigations)

Biography

Pat McFadden was appointed Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs at the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform on 29 June 2007.

Previously he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Cabinet Office as Minister for Social Exclusion from May 2006.

In 2005 Pat McFadden was elected MP for Wolverhampton South East.

Prior to becoming an MP, Pat McFadden worked in a variety of posts for Mr Blair including Policy Adviser both in opposition and in 10 Downing Street, and was the Prime Minister’s Political Secretary.

He worked as a research assistant to the late Donald Dewar MP who was then Labour’s Scottish affairs spokesman between 1988 and 1993. In 1993 he left to work as a speechwriter and policy adviser to the late John Smith MP, then Labour leader.

Pat McFadden was born in 1965 and grew up in Glasgow, the youngest of seven children. He went to Holy Cross Primary school and later to Holyrood Secondary School. After leaving school he studied politics at Edinburgh University.

 

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