Gillian Merron

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Gillian Merron MP
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Member of Parliament for Lincoln
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Kenneth Carlisle
Succeeded by	Incumbent

Born	12 April 1959 (1959-04-12) (age 50) Ilford, Essex
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Lancaster

Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln. She is currently a Parliamentary Secretary based at the Cabinet Office and Minister for the East Midlands.

Born in Ilford, Essex and educated at Wanstead High School in Wanstead in east London and the University of Lancaster gaining a BSc(Hons) in Management Sciences, she worked as a local government officer and a UNISON and NUPE regional trade union official. She worked in social services in Derby for fifteen years. She was elected to the House of Commons in May 1997 with a majority of 11,000 (4,000 in 2005). She is Lincolnshire's only Labour MP - and the first since Margaret Beckett had the seat in 1979.

From October 2002 until May 2006 she was a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. She then moved to the Department for Transport, where she worked until the reshuffle on 29 June 2007, when she took on her current role.