1. Joyce Quin was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989, and served as the member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West and for its predecessor Gateshead East from 1987 to 2005.
21 Facts About Joyce Quin
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Joyce Quin subsequently gained an Master of Science degree in international relations at the London School of Economics.
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Joyce Quin worked as a French language lecturer and tutor at the University of Bath and Durham University.
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Joyce Quin is the great-niece of Labour Party politician Joshua Ritson.
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Joyce Quin served as a member of the European Parliament for Tyne South and Wear and Tyne and Wear successively from 1979 to 1989.
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Joyce Quin was a member of the Agriculture, Women's Rights, Regional and Economic Affairs Committee.
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Joyce Quin entered the House of Commons in the 1987 election as Member of Parliament for Gateshead East.
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Joyce Quin served as prisons minister, Minister for Europe, and as Minister of State for Agriculture.
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Joyce Quin asked to retire as a minister in 2001 to concentrate on her constituency interests.
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In Parliament as a backbencher Joyce Quin was the first woman to chair the Northern Group of Labour MPs and Chaired the All-Party Group for France.
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Joyce Quin successfully lobbied Chancellor Gordon Brown to bring in the nationwide concessionary bus travel scheme for pensioners.
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Joyce Quin was appointed a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister by Harriet Harman in May 2010, and was retained in that role by Ed Miliband after his election as Leader of the Labour Party.
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Joyce Quin stood down from this position in July 2011.
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In November 2007, Baroness Joyce Quin was appointed Chair of the Franco-British Council.
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Joyce Quin was interviewed in 2014 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.
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Joyce Quin retired from the House of Lords on 19 December 2024, having made her valedictory speech on 11th December.
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Joyce Quin has volunteered as a Newcastle City Tourist Guide since 1976.
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Joyce Quin is President of the Northumbrian Pipers' Society and President of the Northumberland National Park Foundation.
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Joyce Quin served as Chair of the Strategic Board of Tyne and Wear Museums between 2017 and 2023.
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In 2010 Joyce Quin authored a book titled "The British Constitution, Continuity and Change - An Inside View: Authoritative Insight into How Modern Britain Works" published by Northern Writers.
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Joyce Quin served as Vice-President of the European Movement UK from 2005 to 2024.