Gisela Stuart MPWorking hard for Bartley Green, Edgbaston, Harborne and Quinton

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Biography


About Gisela

Gisela has represented Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997. The constituency covers the City Council wards of Bartley Green, Edgbaston, Harborne and Quinton

She was educated in what was then West Germany where she served an apprenticeship in Bookselling. After Business Studies in Manchester she got a law degree from London University. Gisela ran the London Book Fair in the 1980s, and then became a lecturer. She did research into pension law at Birmingham University.

Political Career
Contested the European elections in 1994
Member of Social Security select committee 1997098
PPS to Paul Boateng [ Minister of State for the Home Office] 1998
Parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department of health 1999-2001
Member of Foreign Affairs Committee July 2001 - March 2010
Presidium Member and UK Parliamentary Representative on Convention for Future of Europe: Author of Fabian Pamphlet The Making of Europe’s Constitution
Chair of the All Parliamentary Group on International and Transatlantic Security
Member of the Defence Select Committee June 2010 

Special Interests
Pensions (particularly provision for women)
International Relations
Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Editor of ’The House Magazine’ parliament’s weekly political magazine

Personal Interests
Life member of Organic Gardens, Ryton
Trustee of Henry Jackson Society
Fabian Member

To read Gisela’s various speeches, articles and interviews click here.

To see my expenses click here.

    • great george orwell play... wigan peer.. on R4 now. Tune in 16 hrs ago
    • IDS welfare reforms. We all want people to be better off in work than out. Let's hope he gets it right. 21 hrs ago
    • listening to Digby Jones on R4....Labour made him a minister and gave him a peerage... which party does he think he belongs to? 1 day ago
    • Bet you Cameron will come to regret having his India visit overshadowed by his incautious comments. 2 days ago
    • getting ready for meeting in Department of Health re: Birmingham proposal for physician assistants 3 days ago
    • now we know it. when Cameron goes on holiday.... Clegg won't be left in charge. 4 days ago
    • good news. Con-Dem government U-turn on naming those charged with rape. 5 days ago
    • going to Bromsgrove supporting David Miliband in Labour Party meeting tonight 1 week ago
    • Coalition in a bit of a Pickle over tuition fees and graduate tax. LibDems discovering government not as as easy as they thought 1 week ago
    • have written to BBC today to ask why there is no director of programmes for the West Midlands as there is for North West 1 week ago
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