Mary Honeyball

Mary Honeyball MEP
Mary Honeyball in Strasbourg, 2014
Member of the European Parliament for London
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 February 2000
Preceded by	Pauline Green
Personal details
Born	12 November 1952
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford
Website	thehoneyballbuzz.com europarl...MARY HONEYBALL

Mary Hilda Rosamund Honeyball (born 12 November 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party representing London. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2000. Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not been elected in the European Parliament Election, 1999, but replaced Pauline Green who resigned as an MEP in November 1999. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford.

Before her election to the European Parliament, Honeyball's career was in the charitable and non-governmental sector. During the 1980s, she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for SCOPE, the disability charity. She was later the General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation from 1994 to 1998, and prior to that Chief Executive of Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families. She was also a councillor in the London Borough of Barnet from 1978 to 1986. Honeyball unsuccessfully contested Enfield Southgate in 1983 and Norwich North for Labour in 1987.

Honeyball was Chair of the Greater London Labour Party Women's Committee during the 1980s and spent three years as Treasurer of Emily's List, an organisation that helps pro-choice Labour women campaign for seats in Parliament.