Linda Gilroy
 Educated in Devon and Scotland Linda returned to the South West in 1979 to run the regional Gas Consumers Council. She was deputy director of Age
Concern Scotland from 1972 – 1979 and is a member of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration.
Linda contested South East Cornwall in 1992, and stood for Plymouth and East Devon in the European elections of 1994. She
won Plymouth Sutton (mostly the old Plymouth Drake) in 1997.
From 2001 - 2005 Linda served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Local Government and the Regions.
She was a member of the European Scrutiny Committee until November 1998. She brought in a Bill to control the sale of fireworks.
She was a member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum from 2001 – 2005, developing the manifesto and serving on its Health Commission, and is a is a member of the UK Delegation of the Organization For Security and Co-Operation in Europe.
Her maiden speech was on Plymouth’s role as a defence centre, and she has spoken on digital TV, defence, tourism, housing, water, army manpower,
unemployment, transport and preventive health care. She campaigns on fuel poverty, warm homes, energy efficiency and adult literacy.
She married Bernard Gilroy in 1986 and likes theatre, walking and swimming.
Education:
The University of Edinburgh
History BA (Hons) 1971
The University of Strathclyde
Post Graduate Diploma 1972 Secretarial and Business Studies
Institute of Trading Standards Administration
Diploma in Consumer Affairs Awarded by the 1989
Career:
Age Concern Scotland
• Deputy Director 1972-1979
Gas Consumers Council South West Office
• Regional Secretary 1979-1986
• Regional Manager 1986-September 1996
Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton (May 1997)
• Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP – Minister for Local Government and the
Regions in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister July 2001-April 2005
• Member of National Policy Forum 2001-2004
• Member of the Defence Select Committee 2005-Present
• Member of the Executive Committee for the British-American All Party Parliamentary Group 2005-Present
• Full Member of the UK delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
March 2007: Selected as Labour & Co-operative candidate for the new constituency of Plymouth Sutton &
Devonport.
Special Interests:
- Member of European Legislation Select Committee (1997-1998)
- Member of Trading Standards Institute for Consumer Affairs
- Private Members Bill on Fireworks (1998)
- Energy Conservation and Efficiency
- Utilities Bill Standing Committee (February 2000)
- Co-Chair of PURGe (Public Utilities Reform Group)
- Vice-Chair All Party Group on Older People
- Standing Committee on Vehicle Crime Bill
- Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Water (2005)
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