Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Quin PC |
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| Minister of State for Europe | |
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In office 28 July 1998 – 28 July 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Doug Henderson |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Hoon |
| Minister of State for Home Affairs | |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 28 July 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Ann Widdecombe |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Williams of Mostyn |
| Member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West Gateshead East (1987–1997) |
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In office 12 June 1987 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Bernard Conlan |
| Succeeded by | Sharon Hodgson |
| Member of the European Parliament for Tyne and Wear Tyne South and Wear (1979-1984) |
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In office 10 June 1979 – 18 June 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 November 1944 |
| Political party | Labour |
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Newcastle University London School of Economics |
Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, PC (born 26 November 1944) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Quin was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, and Newcastle University where she gained first class honours in French and was first in her year. She subsequently gained an M.Sc. in International Relations at the London School of Economics. She worked as a French language lecturer and tutor at the University of Bath and Durham University.
She served as Member of the European Parliament for Tyne South and Wear and Tyne and Wear successively from 1979 to 1989, and entered the House of Commons in the 1987 election as Member of Parliament for Gateshead East. After boundary changes for the 1997 general election, she represented the new Gateshead East and Washington West constituency from 1997 until she stepped down at the 2005 general election and was replaced by Sharon Hodgson.
Quin served as prisons minister, Minister for Europe, and as a junior agriculture minister. She asked to retire as a minister in 2001 to concentrate on her constituency interests. She had intended to stand for membership of a North East Regional Assembly on her retirement from Westminster, but the proposed body was rejected by a margin of 4–1 in a referendum in November 2004.
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