Ian Pearson
| Ian Pearson | |
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| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Kitty Ussher |
| Succeeded by | Justine Greening |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Economics and Business | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by |
Gareth Thomas (promoted to Minister at DBERR) |
| Succeeded by |
Pat McFadden (as Minister of State at DBIS) |
| Minister of State for Science | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Wicks |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Drayson |
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Member of Parliament for Dudley South Dudley West (1994–1997) |
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In office 16 December 1994 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | John Blackburn |
| Succeeded by | Chris Kelly |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 April 1959 Dudley, Worcestershire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick, Balliol College, Oxford |
Ian Phares Pearson (born 5 April 1959) is a British Labour Party politician who was a member of parliament (MP) from 1994 until 2010, representing Dudley West from 1994 until 1997, and then Dudley South from 1997 until his retirement from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election. He served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2008 to 2010.
Pearson was educated at Balliol College, Oxford (BA Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) and the University of Warwick (MA, PhD).
Having unsuccessfully contested Bexhill and Battle in the 1983 general election, Pearson entered parliament for Dudley West in a by-election in December 1994, winning a Conservative seat left vacant by the death of John Blackburn in October of that year. He won the seat with nearly 70% of the votes, with the Conservative candidates polling at less than 20%.
Boundary changes saw him move to the newly created constituency of Dudley South in 1997.
Pearson served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Paymaster-General Geoffrey Robinson from 1997 until Robinson was forced to resign in 1998. In 2001 he returned to the government as a whip. In 2002 he moved to the Northern Ireland Office as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. After the 2005 general election he was promoted to Minister of State for Trade in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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