33 Facts About Meg Munn

Margaret Patricia Munn was born on 1959 and served as a Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015.

Meg Munn went to Mundella Primary School on Mundella Place in Norton Woodseats, then the comprehensive Rowlinson School on Dyche Lane in Jordanthorpe, Sheffield from 1970 to 1977,.

Meg Munn studied languages at the University of York receiving a BA in 1981, later gaining an MA in social work at the University of Nottingham in 1986.

Meg Munn later gained a Certificate and Diploma in Management Studies from the Open University and in 2012 became the first MP to be awarded Chartered Manager status by the Chartered Management Institute, subsequently becoming a Fellow of the Institute.

Meg Munn was on the Barnsley Regional Board of the Co-operative Group, the UK's largest co-operative society, and the management committee of Wortley Hall, a national co-operative conference centre.

Meg Munn was elected President of the 2006 Co-operative Congress Meg Munn is a member of USDAW, the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party.

Meg Munn was Patron of Heeley City Farm, Patron of Home-Start Sheffield and Patron of Sheffield Young Carers.

Meg Munn was closely involved with the Adoption and Children Act 2002; changing national regulations to allow Local Authorities to register body-piercing studios; supporting small business, including co-operative and mutual enterprises; encouraging women to go into business; and House of Lord's reform.

Meg Munn served as Chair of the Women's Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party and Chair of the Parliamentary Co-operative Group.

Meg Munn has been Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, a vice-chair of the group Progress and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Voice group.

Meg Munn served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Education and Skills from July 2003 to 2004 and then continuing to be a PPS at the department attached to the Minister of State for Education until May 2005.

Meg Munn was Minister for Women and Equality, based at the Department for Communities and Local Government from May 2005 until June 2007.

Meg Munn introduced civil partnerships in the UK in December 2005.

Meg Munn was responsible for the Equality Act 2006, and involved in the Work and Families Act 2006.

Meg Munn was not able to take a ministerial salary, as the maximum number of paid ministers, had been appointed.

Meg Munn argued strongly in support of the coalition government's plan to participate in military strikes against the Syrian Government in the wake of a chemical-weapons attack at Ghouta in the vote on 29 August 2013, contrary to the Labour Party's position.

Meg Munn was one of four Labour MPs who did not vote against the government motion, which the government lost.

On 29 June 2007, Meg Munn was appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Meg Munn stood down from the government in October 2008.

Meg Munn was Chair of the UK government-funded Westminster Foundation for Democracy from October 2008 to July 2010, and Vice-Chair July 2010 to October 2012.

The article reported that when Meg Munn published her receipt for these services on her website, she blacked out the portion indicating that her husband was the beneficiary of her expenses.

Meg Munn said on her website that the blacking out had been done by the House of Commons, which deleted details considered to be a personal security risk; her husband's name was deleted for one year, presumably in error, but published for three other years.

Meg Munn said that neither she nor her staff had redacted details.

Meg Munn was one of 98 MPs who voted in favour of legislation which would have kept MPs' expense details secret.

From August 2015 to July 2023 Meg Munn served as pro-chancellor and Deputy Chair, and from July 2023 to April 2024 as Interim Chair, of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Hallam University.

Meg Munn is currently the Senior Independent Director of the Phone-paid Services Authority.

Meg Munn is an international governance consultant with a focus on parliamentary processes, political party development, gender mainstreaming and women's leadership.

Meg Munn is author of Participatory Gender Audits of Parliaments: a Step by Step Guidance Document and Lead drafter for the Compendium of Good Practises for Advancing Women's Political Participation in the OSCE Region, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

Meg Munn was the first independent Chair of the Church of England's National Safeguarding Panel and then the acting Chair of the Independent Safeguarding Board.

Meg Munn resigned from both positions on 12 July 2023.

Meg Munn is fluent in German and French, conversational Italian and Spanish.

Meg Munn has long been an active member of the Methodist Church.

Meg Munn has been married to Dennis Bates since 1989.