Kitty Ussher
| Kitty Ussher | |
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| Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 9 June 2009 – 17 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Angela Eagle |
| Succeeded by | Sarah McCarthy-Fry |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | James Plaskitt |
| Succeeded by | Helen Goodman |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 29 June 2007 – 5 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Ed Balls |
| Succeeded by | Ian Pearson |
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Member of Parliament for Burnley |
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In office 6 May 2005 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Pike |
| Succeeded by | Gordon Birtwistle |
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18 March 1971 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Peter J Colley |
| Children | 1 son, 1 daughter |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford, Birkbeck, University of London |
Katharine Anne Ussher (born 18 March 1971) is a British economist and former Labour Party politician who is now Managing Director of Tooley Street Research. She is also a member of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, a member of TheCityUK's Independent Economists' Panel, and has associate arrangements with a number of London based think tanks.
After training as an economist, she was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley at the 2005 General Election, succeeding Peter Pike. She served as a minister in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2009, mainly at the Treasury, but also at the Department for Work and Pensions. She did not stand at the 2010 Election, citing the desire for a more normal family life while her children were young.
Ussher is the daughter of an Anglo-Irish lawyer father, and a headmistress mother whose brother is Peter Bottomley. Consequently, she is the niece of the former Conservative cabinet minister Virginia Bottomley, and the granddaughter of the diplomat Sir James Bottomley. She is also distantly descended from the family of Archbishop James Ussher.
Ussher was educated on a free place at the independent St Paul's Girls' School; she subsequently attended Balliol College, Oxford, where she read PPE, and Birkbeck College, London, where she took a MSc in Economics.
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