COAKER, Vernon

Member for Gedling since 1997. Committees: Member, Social S Parliamentary Private Secretary ecurity Select Committee 1998-99. Political career: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Crime Reduction) Home Office since 2006; Government Whip 2005-06; Assistant Government Whip 2003-05; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell MP, Secretary of State for DCMS 2002-03; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Estelle Morris MP as Secretary of State for Education and Skills 2002; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Stephen Timms MP as Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry 2002, as Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills 2001-02, as Financial Secretary, Treasury 1999-2001 and as Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1999. Special political interests: Crime, environment, education, sport, animal welfare. Profession/Trade: Teacher. Education: University of Warwick, BA (Hons); Trent Polytechnic, PGCE. Hobbies: Sport, walking. b. 17 June 1953, London. Married, with two children.