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Linda Gilroy MP Plymouth Sutton Labour

Linda Gilroy has been Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton since May 1997. She previously contested South East in 1992, and stood for Plymouth and East Devon in the European elections of 1994

Educated in Devon and (gaining an MA in History from the University of Edinburgh and a postgraduate degree from Strathclyde University), Linda was deputy director of Age Concern, Scotland from 1972 to 1979. She returned to the South West in 1979 to run the regional Gas Consumers Council. She is a member of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration.

Linda was a member of the European Scrutiny Committee from 1997 to 1998. She brought in a Bill to control the sale of fireworks in 1998.

From 2001 to 2005 she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Local Government and the Regions, .

She was a member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum from 2001 to 2005, developing the manifesto and serving on its Health Commission.

She is a member of the executive Committees of the All party Groups on American and Africa and is a member of the UK Delegation of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe.

She joined the Defence Committee in July 2005, and represents the Committee on the Quadripartite Committee on Strategic Export Controls.

Her maiden speech was on Plymouth’s role as a defence centre, and she has spoken on digital TV, defence, tourism, housing, water, army manpower, unemployment, transport and preventive health care. She campaigns on fuel poverty, warm homes, energy efficiency and adult literacy.

She married Bernard Gilroy in 1986 and likes theatre, walking and swimming.