Gerry Sutcliffe
| Gerry Sutcliffe | |
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| Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Graham Allen |
| Succeeded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Minister for Sport and Tourism | |
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In office 29 June 2007 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Richard Caborn |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Robertson |
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Member of Parliament for Bradford South |
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In office 9 June 1994 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Cryer |
| Succeeded by | Judith Cummins |
| Majority | 4,902 (9.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 May 1953 Salford, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Gerard Sutcliffe (born 13 May 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford South from 1994 to 2015. He was the Minister for Sport and Tourism in the Brown Government.
In May 2014 Sutcliffe announced that he would stand down at the following general election.
Born in Salford, Sutcliffe was educated in Bradford at Cardinal Hinsley Grammar School, but left aged sixteen, and then worked as a salesman and for a printers company, becoming a deputy branch secretary of the print workers trade union SOGAT. He was a member of Bradford City Council from 1982 to 1994, serving as the council's leader from 1992 to 1994.
When Bradford South's Labour MP Bob Cryer was killed in a car crash in April 1994, Sutcliffe was selected as the Labour candidate for the resulting by-election. He won the by-election with 55% of the vote, and has held the seat since.
In Parliament, he served on the Public Accounts Committee from 1996 to 1998, and was a member of the Unopposed Bills Panel from 1997 to 1999.
After the 1997 general election, when a Labour government took power under Tony Blair, Sutcliffe was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Harriet Harman, the Secretary of State for Social Security. After Harman was dismissed from the Cabinet in July 1998, he served as PPS to Stephen Byers, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. When Byers was promoted to Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in December 1998, Sutcliffe remained his PPS.
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