Home Office Ministers and Responsibilities
Paul Goggins MP
 Paul
Goggins MP is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
for Correctional Services and reducing re-offending.
He provides support to Minister of State for Criminal
Justice, Sentencing and Law Reform, with particular
responsibility for delivery of effective correctional
services (National Offender Management Service and the
YJB), wrongful conviction, reducing re-offending and
managing restricted patients. He has responsibility
for the Criminal Cases Review Commission, youth crime,
rehabilitation policy, policy on sex offenders and sex
offences, policy on public protection and dangerous
offenders. He has responsibility for the Home Office
input into policy on young people and families, drugs
in prison, coroners and burial law, obscenity and the
child protection internet task force. He is Departmental
champion for Home Office research and is also responsible
for CJS business in the House of Commons, and for Home
Office policy relating to science.
Paul Goggins has been MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East
since May 1997. He was born in Manchester in 1953 and
was a pupil at St Bede's College, before going on to
train as a social worker. He worked in social work for
15 years, much of it with young offenders and their
families. Between 1984-89, he worked for NCH as a director
of a community-based alternative to custody for juvenile
offenders. Prior to his election he was the director
of Church Action on Poverty, a national church-based
campaigning organisation. He was also a councillor in
Salford (1990-1998).
Mr Goggins was a member of the House of Commons Social
Security Select Committee until October 1998 when he
was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS)
to John Denham, then the Minister of State at the Department
of Social Security. He moved with Mr Denham to the Department
of Health in January 1999.
In December 2000 he was appointed PPS to David Blunkett,
Secretary of State at the Department for Education and
Employment and moved with Mr Blunkett to the Home Office
in June 2001.
Paul is the co-founder of the All Party Parliamentary
Friends of CAFOD group and was previously Secretary
of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty. Paul
is married with three teenage children and is a season
ticket holder at Manchester City Football Club.
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