Natascha Engel
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Natascha Engel MP |
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| Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means | |
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Assumed office 3 June 2015 |
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| Speaker | John Bercow |
| Preceded by | Dawn Primarolo |
| Chair of the Backbench Select Committee | |
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In office 15 June 2010 – 3 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Ian Mearns |
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Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Harry Barnes |
| Majority | 1,883 (3.9%) |
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9 April 1967 West Berlin, West Germany |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | David Salisbury-Jones (????-2012, Divorced) |
| Children | 3x sons |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater |
King's College London, University of Westminster |
| Profession | Translator; trade union official |
| Website | www.nataschaengelmp.org.uk |
Natascha Engel (born 9 April 1967) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Derbyshire since 2005. She has extensive involvement in the trade union movement and is currently Second Deputy Chair of Ways and Means (i.e. one of three deputy speakers). For her work in Parliament she was awarded Parliamentarian of the Year in 2013 by the Political Studies Association.
Natascha Engel was born in Berlin, Germany to a German father and an English mother. After her parents' divorce, she moved with her mother to Kent, and was educated at Kent College, Canterbury and The King's School, Canterbury.
She later trained as a linguist in German and Portuguese at King's College London and at the University of Westminster where she obtained a Master's degree in Technical and Specialised Translation. In addition to her political career, Engel has done postgraduate work in translation: she speaks English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. In 2012 she divorced her veterinary physician husband, with whom she has three sons.
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