MARGARET MORAN MP
Margaret Moran was first elected as the MP for Luton South in May 1997, and re-elected in June 2001. She worked her way up through local government and won a well-deserved reputation for hard work and toughness.
Her interests span a wide range of concerns from Northern Ireland, to Housing, Domestic Violence, new technologies, and social exclusion and football.
Margaret was born on the 24th April 1955 in East London to Irish parents. She was educated at St Ursula's High School, Greenwich, St Mary's College, Twickenham and Birmingham University, where she gained honours Degree in Geography and Sociology.
She was a Labour councillor for 13 years and was the first woman leader of Lewisham Borough Council. She pioneered the use of new technologies in service delivery and local democracy and helped with the relocation of Millwall Football Club. In 1997 she served as PPS to Transport Minister,
Rt Hon Gavin Strang and later became PPS to Dr Mo Mowlam.
Until the disolution or Parliament, she was chair of the all party parliamentary group on Domestic Violence and the Parliamentary Labour Housing Group and the Parliamentary Labour Party Parliamentary Affairs Committee and was Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party Northern Ireland Committee. Margaret also founded Labour's E-futures group and in May 2000 was awarded the Government Computing Information Age Innovator of the Year.