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Mary Honeyball was elected to the European Parliament in 2000, as a Labour Member for London, after 30 years in Labour politics. She previously served as a London Borough Councillor for eight years and a school governor for over 20 years.

 

Mary in Stratford

 

As a passionate campaigner for women’s rights, she was Chair of the Greater London Labour Party Women’s Committee during the 1980s and spent three years as Treasurer of Emily’s List, an organisation that helps Labour women campaign for seats in Parliament.

Before her election to the European Parliament, Mary had a distinguished career in the charitable and non-governmental sector. During the 1980s she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for SCOPE, the cerebral palsy charity.

With Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon and Cllr Nilgun Canver

In the 1990s Mary became Chief Executive of the lone parent organisation Gingerbread and from there took up the position of General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation.

In the European Parliament, Mary currently is the Socialist & Democrat Coordinator and Labour party spokesperson on the Committee for Culture and Education.  She is also Labour spokesperson on women’s rights and regional development. In the last Parliamentary term, as a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Mary led on issues surrounding new technologies and telecommunications, within the European Parliament’s Labour Party.

Mary working for London

Outside of Mary’s Committee work, she is Chair of the Osteoporosis Interest Group. In addition Mary takes a special interest in Cyprus.

Mary is a member of UNISON, the Co-operative Party and the Fabian Society.

She is a keen writer and has recently completed the second edition of “Women in Power“, a directory of female MEPs