Joan Ryan
| Joan Ryan MP | |
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Member of Parliament
for Enfield North |
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| Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Timothy Eggar |
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| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
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| Born | 8 September 1955 Warrington |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
Joan Marie Ryan (born 8 September 1955, Warrington) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is member of Parliament for Enfield North, and is a member of the Labour Party. She was first elected in 1997, and had previously been deputy leader of Barnet Council.
From 5 May 2006, until 29 June 2007 Ryan was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration at the Home Office, succeeding Andy Burnham. She had particular responsibility for ID cards and passports, the Forensic Science Service, refugee integration, E-borders, extradition and judicial cooperation, the Criminal Records Bureau, Home Office research and science, improving regulation, and design and green issues. She left the Government in Gordon Brown's first reshuffle, becoming Brown's Special Representative to Cyprus.
Prior to that Ryan had been a parliamentary private secretary to Andrew Smith, as well as a senior whip. She lives in Enfield North, and is well respected as an assiduous local campaigner. In the 2005 election, bucking the trend nationally as well as locally in London, and even in the borough of Enfield (where her fellow Labour MP Stephen Twigg was defeated by the Conservatives in Enfield Southgate on a very large 8.7 % swing), she retained her seat with a slightly reduced majority.
Ryan supported Hazel Blears in the Labour party's 2007 deputy leadership election, Blears came sixth in the election. On 29 June, it was announced that the Prime Minister had appointed Ryan as Special Representative to Cyprus and as a Privy Counsellor.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present) | ||
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| Preceded by Timothy Eggar |
Member of Parliament for
Enfield North 1997 – present |
Incumbent |
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