Chris Mole
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| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport |
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In office 9 June 2009 – 6 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Succeeded by | Mike Penning |
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Member of Parliament for Ipswich |
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In office 22 November 2001 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Jamie Cann |
| Succeeded by | Ben Gummer |
| Majority | 5,332 (12.7%) |
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16 March 1958 Bromley, Kent |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Shona Gibb |
| Alma mater | University of Kent |
Christopher David Mole (born 16 March 1958) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich from a by-election in 2001, after the death of Jamie Cann, and was re-elected in 2005. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer, son of former MP John Gummer.
Mole attended Dulwich College. He gained a degree in Electronics from the University of Kent and moved to Ipswich in 1981 to work at the BT Laboratories at Martlesham Heath. During that time he served as Branch Secretary of the Research Branch of the white collar BT-only union then called the STE. It is now a cross industry union called Connect.
He was first elected to Suffolk County Council in 1985 and represented a central Ipswich division for 18 years. He was Deputy Chair of EEDA, the regional development agency for the East of England, from 1998 and was Leader of Suffolk County Council from 1993, named Council of the Year 2001, until his election as Member of Parliament. He was a governor of Handford Hall Primary School, Ipswich.
In the 2001 parliament, Mole served as a member of the Select Committee that scrutinised the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deregulation and Regulatory Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. He steered his Private Member's Bill onto the Statute Book where it became the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, extending the concept of legal deposit to electronic records; the Bill was strongly promoted by the British Library
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