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Barry Gardiner MP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competitiveness
Responsible for Delivery and Efficiency
- Barry Gardiner was born in Glasgow in 1957. He studied at St.
Andrews University and Cambridge. In 1983, he won a John F Kennedy
scholarship to do research at Harvard.
- In 1987 he entered business and ran a company of international
maritime arbitrators for 10 years before entering parliament as MP
for Brent North in 1997.
- Barry was a City Councillor in Cambridge where he chaired the
Finance Committee and became the youngest mayor in the City's 800
year history. In Parliament, he has served on the Public Accounts
Select Committee, and on the Broadcasting and Procedure Select
Committees. He stood on the Finance Standing Committee that
scrutinised the budget for 3 years in a row. He has chaired the
All Party Group on Sports and Leisure and the All Party Group on
Commonhold and Leasehold Reform. He founded and chaired Labour
Friends of India and is a regular contributor to the Gujarati and
Asian press.
- Barry was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern
Ireland from April 2004 to May 2005. In May 2005 he became the
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competitiveness at the
Department of Trade and Industry.
- Barry and his wife, Caroline, have three sons and a daughter.
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