FITZPATRICK, Jim

Member for Poplar and Canning Town since 1997. Committees: Member, Selection Select Committee 2003-05; Co-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fire Safety 1999-2001; Chair, APP Thames Gateway Group 1998-2001; Joint Vice-Chair, APPG on Leasehold Reform 1998-2001; Joint Vice-Chair, APP Police Group 1998-2001; Member, APPG on Animal Welfare 1998-2001; Member, APPG on AIDS/HIV 1998-2001; Member, APPG on Rwanda/Genocide 1999-2001; Member, APPG on Bangladesh 1998-2001. Political career: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport since 2007; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Employment Relations, Postal Services, London) 2006-07; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2005-06; Government Whip 2003-05; Assistant Government Whip 2001-03; Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty-s Household since 2003; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alan Milburn, Department of Health 1999-2001; PPS to Alan Milburn, Treasury 1999; Chair, Greater London Labour Party 1991-2000; Member, London Labour Executive 1988. Special political interests: Anti-poverty, regeneration. Profession/Trade: Parent Governor, Eastbury Comprehensive School 1994-2000. Education: Holyrood Senior Secondary, Glasgow. Hobbies: West Ham United FC, golf, reading, TV/films, Millwall RFC. b. 4 April 1952, Glasgow. Married with two children.