Home Office Ministers and Responsibilities

Fiona Mactaggart MP

Fiona McTaggart is Parliamentary Under Secretary for Race Equality, Community Policy, and Civil Renewal.

She provides support to the Minister of State for Citizenship and Immigration. She has overall responsibility for race equality, community cohesion, civil renewal and active citizenship. She is the Green Minister and a Design Champion. She provides support to the Home Secretary on departmental infrastructure and efficiency issues. She has responsibility for women’s issues, better regulation and reduced bureaucracy and is the Departmental champion for correspondence.

Fiona Mactaggart became MP for Slough in May 1997.

Ms Mctaggart was an inner-London primary school teacher from 1987 - 1992, and from 1992 -7 she was a lecturer in primary education at the London Institute of Education.

She was General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants 1982 -86, press and public relations officer for the National council for Voluntary organisations in 1981. She was a Liberty executive member from 1992 - 1996 and chair from1994 - 1996

Fiona Mactaggart has a BA in English from Kings College, a postgraduate teaching certificate from Goldsmiths College and an MA in Education.