Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin
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Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, PC (born 26 November 1944) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Quin was educated at the University of Newcastle and the London School of Economics. She worked as a French language lecturer and tutor at the University of Bath and Durham University.
She served as Member of the European Parliament for Tyne and Wear from 1979 to 1989, and entered the House of Commons in the 1987 election as Member of Parliament for Gateshead East. After boundary changes for the 1997 general election, she represented the new Gateshead East and Washington West constituency from 1997 until she stepped down at the 2005 general election, when she was replaced by Sharon Hodgson.
Quin served as prisons minister, Minister for Europe and deputy minister for agriculture. In this latter post she played a key role in the 2001-2002 outbreak of foot and mouth disease, which started in a farm close to her home in Gateshead. She asked to retire as a minister in 2001 to concentrate on her constituency interests. She had intended to stand for membership of a North-East Regional Assembly on her retirement from Westminster, but the proposed body was rejected by a margin of 4-1 in a referendum in November 2004.
In April 2006 it was announced that Quin had been nominated for a Life Peerage by the Labour Party [1]. The news had already been revealed in a list leaked to The Times[2] that eventually led to the Cash for Peerages scandal. On 30 May she was created Baroness Quin, of Gateshead in the County of Tyne and Wear. In November 2007 she was appointed Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section).
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| Preceded by Bernard Conlan |
Member of Parliament for Gateshead East 1987–1997 |
Succeeded by (constituency abolished) |
| Preceded by (new constituency) predecessor constituencies: Gateshead East and Houghton and Washington |
Member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West 1997–2005 |
Succeeded by Sharon Hodgson |
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