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Bridget Prentice

Responsibilities

• Access to justice – other than Land Registry, Criminal Cases Review Commission  and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
• Ministry of Justice Ministerial Committee on Domestic Affairs representative
• legal aid in the Commons

Biography

Bridget Prentice MP was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State on 9 May 2007. She was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Constitutional Affairs on 9 May 2005.

She was rector's assessor at Glasgow University (1972-73), became a teacher at London Oratory School in 1974 and Head of Careers in 1984. In 1986 she became Head of Careers at John Archer School. She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Trade between 1998-99 and then to the Lord Chancellor from 1999-2001. She was also a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee between 2001-03 and a Government Whip until April 2005.

Education

English literature and modern history at Glasgow University. Postgraduate Certification in Education at University of London. LLB from South Bank University.

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