Home Office Ministers and Responsibilities
Charles Clarke MP
 Charles
Clarke MP has overall responsibility for the work of
the Home Office, civil emergencies, security, terrorism,
expenditure and Civil Renewal.
He was was appointed Home Secretary on
15 December 2004.
Educated at Highgate School, London, Charles Clarke
read mathematics and economics at Kings College Cambridge,
graduating BA (Hons).
He was President of the National Union of Students from
1975 to 1977. Born in 1950, Mr Clarke married in 1984.
He and his wife Carol have two sons.
Charles Clarke gained extensive experience of local
government in the London Borough of Hackney where he
was chair of the housing committee and vice chair of
economic development between 1980 and 1986.
He worked as a researcher and then Chief of Staff to
former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock from 1981 to
1992. From 1992 to 1997 Mr Clarke was chief executive
of Quality Public Affairs, a public affairs management
consultancy, before his election as a Member of Parliament.
He has been MP for Norwich South since 1997.
Mr Clarke was made Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State for School Standards in July 1998. He was appointed
Minister of State at the Home Office on 29 July 1999
and became Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party
Chair in July 2001. Secretary of State for Education
and Skills since October 2002, Mr Clarke was appointed
Home Secretary in December 2004.
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