Jane Kennedy (politician)
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The Right Honourable Jane Kennedy |
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| Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner | |
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Assumed office 15 November 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Minister for Farming and the Environment | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 8 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | The Lord Rooker |
| Succeeded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | John Healey |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Timms |
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Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree Liverpool Broadgreen (1992-1997) |
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In office 10 April 1992 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Terry Fields |
| Succeeded by | Luciana Berger |
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Jane Elizabeth Hodgson 4 May 1958 Whitehaven, Cumbria, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Malcolm Kennedy (1977–1998) |
| Relations | Peter Dowling (partner) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
Jane Elizabeth Kennedy PC (née Hodgson; born 4 May 1958) is a British Labour Party politician and the inaugural Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner. Kennedy was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Broadgreen from 1992 until 1997 and for Liverpool Wavertree from 1997 until she stood down in 2010.
Formerly a member of the Government, on 8 June 2009, she returned to the backbenches leaving her position as Minister of State for Farming and the Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
She was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, and attended Haughton Comprehensive School (now part of the 'Education Village') on Rockwell Avenue in Haughton Le Skerne, then Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington. She studied Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. She worked in social care for Liverpool City Council from 1979-88 when she became a trade union organiser for the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE). In Liverpool she had been active in ending the Militant group's infiltration of the Liverpool Labour Party.
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