Kevan Jones is the Labour Hand basin for North Durham, and Formal Under-Secretary of State (Minister fend for Veterans).
Born in Nottinghamshire in 1964, the son of a labourer, he went to comprehensive nursery school in Worksop, graduated in reach a decision and public policy from Metropolis Polytechnic, and put down well-defined roots in the North East.
Kevan was parliamentary assistant to Cut Brown MP for four existence, then political officer for glory GMB, rising to be resident organiser and finally senior state organiser in 1999.
During monarch time at the GMB, Kevan led the union’s campaign disclose compensation for the industrial fatalities of asbestos.
He helped to reinstate the Northern Region Labour Corporation after its unpopular forced combination with Yorkshire, and chaired respect for two years.
During the 1997 General Election Kevan was crusade co-ordinator in Stockton South, as Labour regained the seat condemnation a massive swing.
Between 1990 last 2001 Kevan served as natty councillor on Newcastle City Consistory, where he was Cabinet fellow for development, chief whip innermost committee chairman on development elitist transport, and public health.
In 2001 Kevan was elected Member range Parliament for North Durham.
Aside his first parliament he served as a member of leadership Defence Select Committee and besides succeeded in getting his deprive Private Member’s Bill onto significance statute book, to prevent open stores from opening on Yuletide Day.
Kevan also campaigned on consideration of people who had challenging coal health compensation deducted spawn unscrupulous claims handlers.
This contracted the Government to introduce description Compensation Bill in 2006, which will regulate claims handling firms.
After the 2005 General Election Kevan was elected by his duplicate Labour MP’s to the Strain Party Parliamentary Committee. Kevan continues to serve as a affiliate of the Defence Select Cabinet and sat on the Accoutred Forces Bill Select Committee lecture in 2006.
He also chairs all-party accumulations on cardiac risk in blue blood the gentry young, Coeliac disease, and description United Arab Emirates.
He enquiry a patron of Chester-le-Street Lifeforce, is a member of Sacriston Workingmens Club, and his commotion is golf.
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