Siobhain McDonagh

Biography:

Siobhain McDonagh was re-elected MP for Mitcham and Morden on May 7th 2015 with 27380 votes, taking 60.7% of the vote.

She was first elected in 1997 on her third attempt, defeating the Conservative incumbent, Dame Angela Rumbold, who was her opponent in both 1987 and 1992 General Elections.

Siobhain McDonagh had a record of loyalty to the Labour Party. Locally, she generally has a reputation for being an assiduous local Member of Parliament holding a weekly surgery along with regular coffee mornings.

She has been extremely pro-active and instrumental in securing two Academy schools for East Mitcham, an area that suffers from considerable educational underachievement with GCSE results far below the national average. Recently she was also successful along with Merton Council in getting the Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, to locate the new critical care hospital at St Helier near the southern edge of her constituency. This overturned a decision by local health chiefs to locate the hospital at the Sutton Hospital site a number of miles away from her Mitcham and Morden constituency.

After the May 2005 General Election she served as PPS to Dr. John Reid in his position as Secretary of State for Defence and from May 2006 to June 2007 Secretary of State for Home Affairs. She was appointed to the position of Assistant Whip on 28 June 2007 in the re-shuffle brought about by Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister.

Constituency: Mitcham and Morden

Constituency Address: 1 Crown Road, Morden, Surrey , SM4 5DD

Date of Birth: 20 February 1960

Email: mcdonaghs@parliament.uk

Party: Labour

Personal Website: http://www.siobhainmcdonagh.org.uk/

Westminster Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel: 020 7219 4678

Twitter: @Siobhain_MP

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Siobhain-McDonagh/1485922148331912