Karin Smyth
Karin Smyth MP | |||||||||||||
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Minister of State for Secondary Care | |||||||||||||
Incumbent | |||||||||||||
Assumed office 8 July 2024 | |||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||
Preceded by | Andrew Stephenson (Health and Secondary Care) | ||||||||||||
Member of Parliament for Bristol South | |||||||||||||
Incumbent | |||||||||||||
Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Dawn Primarolo | ||||||||||||
Majority | 7,666 (17.7%) | ||||||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||||||
Born | (1964-09-08) 8 September 1964 (age 59) London, England | ||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of East Anglia (BA) University of Bath (MBA) | ||||||||||||
Website | karinsmyth | ||||||||||||
Karin Marguerite Smyth (born 8 September 1964) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South since 2015.[1] She has served as a Minister of State for Secondary Care since July 2024.[2][3]
Early life and career
Karin Marguerite Smyth was born on 8 September 1964 in London.[4][5] Her parents had emigrated from Ireland to England in the 1950s. Smyth has three children.
Smyth was educated at Bishopshalt School, Uxbridge College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1988) where she was President of the Union of UEA Students, and the University of Bath (MBA, 1995).[6] Smyth worked as an office manager for Bristol West MP Valerie Davey from 1997.[7]
Smyth worked as an NHS manager at Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group.[8] She was a non-executive director of Bristol North PCT from 2002 to 2006.[5]
Parliamentary career
After becoming an MP at the 2015 general election, Smyth became a member of the Public Accounts Committee in July 2015.[9]
On 27 June 2016, she gave support to a series of shadow cabinet resignations aimed at ousting the Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn MP, in an open letter to constituents.[10] She supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.[11]
From October 2016 to July 2017, Smyth was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Keir Starmer, Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.[12] From July 2017 to December 2018, she served as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons[13] and on 30 July 2018 was appointed as a Shadow Minister in Labour's Northern Ireland team.[14]
She attacked the wave of NHS trusts establishing wholly owned companies in 2018, saying that this led to further fragmentation of the NHS and was done purely for tax advantages.[15]
On 28 June 2017, Matthew Niblett was jailed for 14 weeks for threatening to kill Smyth over what he felt was her failure to investigate his case.[16]
Karin Smyth is a Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life.[17]
In the September 2023 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Health.[18] She was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care following the election of a Labour Government in July 2024.[2]
References
- ^ 'SMYTH, Karin', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
- ^ a b "Ministerial Appointments: July 2024". GOV.UK. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "No. 61961". The London Gazette. 19 June 2017. p. 11780.
- ^ a b "Who I am". Karin Smyth. 28 May 2012. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ^ "Karin Smyth – Candidate for Bristol South". Labour Party. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ ""I am determined to improve opportunities for people in Bristol South" – Karin Smyth, Labour's new MP". Labour South West. 3 August 2015. Archived from the original on 14 October 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "Karin Smyth to stand for Labour in Bristol South at next election". BBC News. 8 June 2013. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
- ^ "Karin Smyth MP". parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "Karin Smyth adds her name to growing list calling for Corbyn's resignation". ITV News. 27 June 2016. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ^ "Owen Smith's battlebus arrives in Bristol". Bristol 24/7. 30 August 2016. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ Daly, Patrick (25 January 2017). "Jeremy Corbyn looks set to demand Labour MPs vote for Article 50 – but Bristol MPs aren't impressed". Bristol Post. Retrieved 26 January 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Smyth, Karin (19 July 2017). "Karin Smyth appointed Shadow Deputy Leader of the House". Karin Smyth MP. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ "Karin Smyth and Luke Pollard get new Labour frontbench roles". Labour List. 30 July 2018. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ "Karin Smyth: Do away with tax benefits for wholly owned companies". Health Service Journal. 17 May 2018. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ Morris, Steven (28 June 2017). "Man jailed for threatening to kill Labour MP Karin Smyth". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Members". The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Belger, Tom (5 September 2023). "Labour reshuffle: Starmer unveils six new shadow ministers of state". LabourList. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
External links
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- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Bristol South 2015–present | Incumbent |
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