John Yorke Denham

The Right Honourable John Denham FRSA
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition
In office 8 October 2011 – 17 April 2013
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Anne McGuire and Michael Dugher
Succeeded by	Karen Buck
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
In office 8 October 2010 – 6 October 2011
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Pat McFadden
Succeeded by	Chuka Umunna
Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Caroline Spelman
Succeeded by	Caroline Flint
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Hazel Blears
Succeeded by	Eric Pickles
Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Alan Johnson (Education and Skills)
Succeeded by	The Lord Mandelson (Business, Innovation and Skills)
Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee
In office 14 June 2003 – 27 June 2007
Preceded by	Chris Mullin
Succeeded by	Keith Vaz
Minister of State for Policing
In office 11 June 2001 – 12 June 2003
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Paul Boateng
Succeeded by	Hazel Blears
Minister of State for Health Services
In office 30 December 1998 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Alan Milburn
Succeeded by	Jacqui Smith
Minister of State for Social Security
In office 28 July 1998 – 30 December 1998
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Frank Field
Succeeded by	Stephen Timms
Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen
In office 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Christopher Chope
Succeeded by	Royston Smith
Personal details
Born	(1953-07-15) 15 July 1953 (age 63) Seaton, England, UK
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Ruth Eleanor Dixon (Divorced)
Alma mater	University of Southampton

John Yorke Denham FRSA (born 15 July 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen from 1992 to 2015. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and as the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.

He was the Shadow Business Secretary in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet from 2010 to 2011, when he announced that he would be standing down as an MP at the next election, and retired from the front-bench in order to become Miliband's Parliamentary Private Secretary.

John Denham was born in Seaton, Devon and attended the Woodroffe Comprehensive School on Uplyme Road in Lyme Regis, Dorset, and the University of Southampton, where he took a BSc in Chemistry, and was President of the Students' Union in the academic year 1976-77.

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