| Chris Mole MP | |
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| Assumed office 9 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
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| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
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Member of Parliament
for Ipswich |
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| Assumed office 15 October 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Jamie Cann |
| Majority | 5,332 (12.7%) |
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| Born | 16 March 1958 Bromley, Kent |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Shona Gibb |
| Alma mater | University of Kent |
Christopher David Mole, known as Chris Mole, (born 16 March 1958, Bromley, Kent) is the current member of Parliament for Ipswich in Suffolk, and a member of the governing Labour Party. He won the seat in the 2001 by-election held after the death of Jamie Cann and was re-elected in the General Election held in May 2005. He is currently a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport.
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Early life
Chris Mole went to the independent Dulwich College. He gained a degree in Electronics from the University of Kent and moved to Ipswich in 1981 to work at the BT Laboratories at Martlesham Heath. During that time he served as Branch Secretary of the Research Branch of the white collar BT-only union then called the STE. It is now a cross industry union called Connect [1]. He was first elected to Suffolk County Council in 1985 and represented a central Ipswich division for 18 years. He was Deputy Chair of EEDA, the regional development agency for the East of England, from 1998 and was Leader of Suffolk County Council from 1993, named Council of the Year 2001, until his election as Member of Parliament. He was a governor of Handford Hall Primary School in Ipswich.
Parliamentary career
In the 2001 parliament, Chris Mole served as a member of the Select Committee that scrutinised the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deregulation and Regulatory Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. He steered his Private Member's Bill onto the Statute Book where it became the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, extending the concept of legal deposit to electronic records; the Bill was strongly promoted by the British Library.
Chris Mole was appointed in June 2005 to the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary PPS to the Local Government Minister Phil Woolas. He resigned from this position on 6 September 2006 after signing a letter calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down [2]. When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Mole was recalled to a PPS position, taking the post of PPS to John Healey, the Minister of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government on 28 June 2007.
From January 2007 until November 2007, Chris Mole was a member of the Science and Technology Committee.
In October 2008 Chris was made an Assistant Whip in the Labour government and also acts as Assistant Regional Minister with Barbara Follett MP, the Regional Minister for the East of England. He became a minister for the first time in the June 2009 reshuffle when he was appointed to the Department for Transport as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.
Personal life
He lives in east Ipswich with his wife Shona, a systems analyst for BT in Ipswich, and their two sons Edward (Ted), born January 1992, and Thomas (Tom), born September 1994. He married Shona Gibb in July 1996 in Ipswich. Their sons go to local state schools and Chris was a school governor for over ten years.
External links
- Chris Mole MP official site
- Ipswich Labour Party site
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Chris Mole MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Chris Mole MP
- BBC Politics
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| Preceded by Jamie Cann |
Member of Parliament for Ipswich 2001–present |
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