Sharon Hodgson
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Sharon Hodgson MP |
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| Shadow Minister for Public Health | |
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Assumed office 10 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Gwynne |
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Member of Parliament for Washington and Sunderland West Gateshead East and Washington West (2005–10) |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Joyce Quin |
| Majority | 13,157 (35.3%) |
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1 April 1966 Gateshead, County Durham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Alan Hodgson |
| Religion | Christian |
| Website | www.sharonhodgson.org |
Sharon Hodgson (born 1 April 1966) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Washington and Sunderland West since 2010. She was previously the MP for Gateshead East and Washington West.
Hodgson was born in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear and was educated locally at Greenwell Junior High School and Heathfield Senior High School, where she obtained eight O-Levels. After school she worked as an accounts clerk in the Team Valley, then attended Newcastle College and the Trades Union Congress Academy in London.
Later she worked for Northern Rock in Gosforth, and then as a payroll and accounting clerk in various local companies. After becoming a full-time mother for a few years in the mid-1990s, and volunteering for the Labour Party in during the 1997 General Election campaign, she became a party organiser in 1999. In 2000, she became the local Party organiser for two years in the Mitcham and Morden constituency, helping the sitting Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh to be re-elected at the 2001 General Election. Before becoming an MP herself, Hodgson worked as Labour Link Officer for UNISON.
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