Melanie Onn
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Melanie Onn MP |
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Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Austin Mitchell |
| Majority | 4,540 (13.5%) |
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19 June 1979 Grimsby, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Middlesex University |
| Website | melanieonn |
Melanie Onn (born 19 June 1979) is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby since May 2015 and Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons since September 2015.
Born in Grimsby, Onn was educated at Franklin College, Grimsby, and studied Politics, Philosophy and International Studies at the University of Middlesex.
Onn worked for 10 years at the Labour Party's head office, becoming the head of the party's Compliance Unit. In 2009, she stood in the European Parliament elections for the Yorkshire and Humber region, placed fifth on Labour's regional list. From 2010, she was a regional organiser for the public sector trade union UNISON.
Onn was selected as the Labour candidate for Great Grimsby from an all-women shortlist in July 2014, following the announcement that the sitting MP, Austin Mitchell, would retire at the next election. In the 2015 general election, she retained the seat for her party with a majority of 4,540, up from 714 in the previous election.
On 20 July 2015, she abstained from the vote on the Conservative government's Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which restricts child benefit to the first two children in a family and lowers the benefit cap from £26,000 to £20,000 per household. The bill was voted through by 308 to 124 Members of Parliament, despite 48 Labour MPs disobeying the party line of abstention by voting against the bill. Had the abstained MPs voted against, it would have been mathematically possible to tie the vote.
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