Claire Ward
| Claire Ward | |
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice | |
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In office 9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Shahid Malik |
| Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Liz Blackman |
| Succeeded by | Helen Jones |
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Member of Parliament for Watford |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Tristan Garel-Jones |
| Succeeded by | Richard Harrington |
| Majority | 1,148 (2.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 May 1972 North Shields |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater |
University of Hertfordshire Brunel University The College of Law |
Claire Margaret Ward (born 9 May 1972) is a British Labour Party politician. She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Watford from 1997 to 2010, and was a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2010.
Ward was born in North Shields, Northumberland, the daughter of Frank and Cathy Ward. Both her parents were Labour Party councillors and her father stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate for Hertsmere in the 1987 general election. She was brought up in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, where she attended the Loreto College, an all-girls Roman Catholic school in St Albans, and studied at the newly created University of Hertfordshire where she earned an LLB degree in Law in 1993. She then did an MA in Britain and the European Union at Brunel University, before qualifying as a solicitor at the College of Law in London. From 1995–98, she was a trainee solicitor.
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