Kim Howells
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The Right Honourable Kim Howells |
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| Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee | |
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In office 3 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Margaret Beckett |
| Succeeded by | Malcolm Rifkind |
| Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 11 May 2005 – 6 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Elizabeth Symons |
| Succeeded by | Bill Rammell |
| Minister of State for Higher Education | |
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In office 10 September 2004 – 11 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Alan Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Bill Rammell |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
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In office 13 June 2003 – 10 September 2004 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Spellar |
| Succeeded by | Tony McNulty |
| Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | |
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In office 11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Succeeded by | Andrew McIntosh |
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Member of Parliament for Pontypridd |
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In office 23 February 1989 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Brynmor John |
| Succeeded by | Owen Smith |
| Personal details | |
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27 November 1946 Merthyr Tydfil, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Eirlys Davies |
| Alma mater |
Middlesex University University of Warwick Anglia Ruskin University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Kim Scott Howells (born 27 November 1946) is a Welsh Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 1989 to 2010, and held a number of ministerial positions within the Blair and Brown governments.
Howells is the son of Glanville Howells, a Communist lorry driver, and of Joan Glenys Howells. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and raised in Penywaun near Aberdare in the Cynon Valley, he is a former pupil of Mountain Ash Grammar School.
Howells went to Hornsey College of Art (now part of Middlesex University) where he was active in the May 1968 student occupation, and was the first protester to breach the Metropolitan Police cordon at the demonstration against the Vietnam War outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square in 1968.
Howell featured as a student leader at Hornsey College of Art in director John Goldschmidt's film Our Live Experiment is worth more than 3,000 Textbooks, made for Granada Television and shown on the ITV network.
He attended Cambridge College of Arts and Technology between 1971 and 1974 where he studied for a Joint Honours Degree and was awarded an upper second, which allowed him to follow post-graduate studies in history. Howells later obtained a PhD from the University of Warwick in 1979 for a thesis entitled A view from below : tradition, experience and nationalism in the South Wales coalfield, 1937–1957.
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