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Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln. She is currently a Parliamentary Secretary based at the Department for International Development.
Born in Ilford, Essex and educated at Wanstead High School

in Wanstead in east London and the University of Lancaster gaining a BSc(Hons) in Management Sciences, she worked as a local government officer and a UNISON and NUPE regional trade union official. She was elected to the House of Commons in May 1997 with a majority of 11,130 (4,613 in 2005). Until 2007, when Quentin Davies defected to the Labour Party, She was Lincolnshire's only Labour MP - and the first since Margaret Beckett had the seat in 1979.
From October 2002 until May 2006 she was a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. She then moved to the Department for Transport, where she worked until the reshuffle on 29 June 2007, when she became a minister at the Cabinet Office and the first ever minister of the East Midlands. Following Peter Hain's resignation on 24 January 2008 Merron was reshuffled again, becoming a junior minister in the Department for International Development.

Voting record

How Gillian Merron voted on key issues since 2001 (They Work For You

Voted for introducing a smoking ban.
Voted for introducing ID cards.
Voted for introducing foundation hospitals.
Voted for introducing student top-up fees.
Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
Voted for the Iraq war.
Voted against investigating the Iraq war.
Voted for replacing Trident.
Voted for the hunting ban.
Voted for equal gay rights.

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