Joan Ryan
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The Right Honourable Joan Ryan MP |
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Member of Parliament for Enfield North |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Nick de Bois |
| Majority | 1,086 (2.4%) |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Eggar |
| Succeeded by | Nick de Bois |
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| Born |
8 September 1955 Warrington, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Martin Hegarty |
| Alma mater | London South Bank University |
Joan Marie Ryan (born 8 September 1955, Warrington) is a British Labour Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North, having first held the seat between 1997 and 2010, when she lost it to Nick de Bois, but regained it in 2015. She had been deputy leader of Barnet Council.
Ryan served as a local Labour Councillor for eight years. She was Chair of Policy and Finance and deputy leader of Barnet Council before being elected as Member of Parliament for Enfield North in the 1997 general election.
Ryan was parliamentary private secretary to Andrew Smith, and a senior whip. From 5 May 2006 to 29 June 2007, she was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration at the Home Office, succeeding Andy Burnham. In the 2005 election she retained her seat with a slightly reduced majority. On 29 June, it was announced that the Prime Minister had appointed Ryan as Special Representative to Cyprus and as a Privy Counsellor.
She called for a leadership election to replace Gordon Brown as Labour Party leader. For this she was fired as Vice-Chair of the Labour Party and Prime Minister's envoy to Cyprus on 14 September 2008.
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