Kate Green | |
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 Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester for Policing and Crime | |
| Assumed office 9 January 2023 | |
| Mayor | Andy Burnham |
| Preceded by | Beverley Hughes |
| Member of Parliament forStretford and Urmston | |
| In office 6 May 2010 – 10 November 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Beverley Hughes |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Western |
| Chair of the Committees onPrivileges andStandards | |
| In office October 2018 – May 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Kevin Barron |
| Succeeded by | Chris Bryant |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Katherine Anne Green (1960-05-02)2 May 1960 (age 65) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (LLB) |
Katherine Anne Green (born 2 May 1960) is a British politician serving asDeputy Mayor of Greater Manchester for Policing and Crime since 2023. She previously served asMember of Parliament (MP) forStretford and Urmston between 2010 and 2022. A member of theLabour Party, she served asShadow Minister for Women and Equalities from 2015 to 2016, Chair of theCommittees on Privileges andStandards from 2018 to 2020, andShadow Secretary of State for Education from 2020 to 2021.
UnderEd Miliband's leadership, she was a junior Shadow Equalities Minister from 2011 to 2013 and Shadow Disabled People Minister from 2013 to 2015. Green was promoted to theshadow cabinet afterJeremy Corbyn becameLabour leader in 2015, as Shadow Women and Equalities Minister. After losing confidence in Corbyn's leadership, sheresigned in 2016 and chairedOwen Smith'sunsuccessful leadership challenge.
Green was elected to chair the Privileges and Standards Committees in 2018, and stood down upon her appointment as Shadow Child Poverty Strategy Minister by new Labour leaderKeir Starmer in April 2020. Starmer promoted her to Shadow Education Secretary in June 2020, but she left the front bench in theNovember 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle. She resigned her seat in parliament in November 2022 after being nominated byAndy Burnham as Greater Manchester'sDeputy Mayor for Policing and Crime.
Katherine Anne Green was born on 2 May 1960 inEdinburgh, Scotland.[1][2] Her parents were Jessie Craig (née Bruce) and Maurice Green, who was Jewish.[3] She attendedCurrie High School and theUniversity of Edinburgh, graduating with aBachelor of Laws degree.[1][4]
After university, Green began a career atBarclays Bank, working for the organisation from 1982 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999 she worked as a Whitehall and Industry Group secondee to theHome Office. Green was a magistrate in theCity of London between 1993 and 2009.[1][4]
Green was employed as director of theNational Council for One Parent Families from 2000 to 2004 and chief executive of theChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) from 2004 to 2009. Her role at the CPAG was notably held byFrank Field in the 1960s and 70s,[5] who she would later serve alongside in Parliament. Green was a member, and later chair, of the London Child Poverty Commission between 2006 and 2009.
Green joined theLabour Party in 1990 and stood unsuccessfully in the1997 General Election as the candidate for the Greater London constituency ofCities of London and Westminster. She contested the2000 London Assembly election in theWest Central constituency, again not being elected.[4]
In 2009, Green was selected as the candidate forStretford and Urmston through anall-women shortlist followingBeverley Hughes's announcement that she would not be seeking re-election.[6] She was elected as Member of Parliament on6 May 2010, securing 48.6% of the vote and increasing the majority Hughes gained in the2005 general election.
Since entering Parliament, Green has been elected as a Vice-Chair of the Labour Party'sNational Policy Forum and served as the chairman of the Women'sParliamentary Labour Party.[7][8]
In November 2011, Green was criticised for failing to declare an interest when tabling an amendment to a bill. Green had neglected to mention her membership of theGMB trade union when attempting to amend theLegal Aid Bill.[9] In a statement in Parliament Green apologised, saying: "I was advised on those amendments by the GMB trade union. My entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests makes clear my membership of and relationship with that union, but I regret that I did not draw attention to that last week in the Chamber because the amendments did not relate specifically to the union, but to the rights of individual employees." TheSpeaker of the House of Commons,John Bercow, accepted Green's apology, describing it as "most courteous" and insisting that the matter had been resolved.[10]
In February 2012, Green complained about abeer sold in the House of Commons Stranger's Bar, calledTop Totty. The advertising plate on the pump handle featured an image of a bikini-clad bunny girl, which Green said "demeaned women". Leader of the HouseSir George Young upheld her complaint and had the beer removed.[11] The beer, brewed in Stafford by Slater's, had been recommended to the House in 2007 by Labour MP for StaffordDavid Kidney after a visit to Slater's Brewery.[11][12]
Green was re-elected in the2015 general election on an increased voter turnout, managing to increase both the Labour Party's share and majority.
Green became chair ofOwen Smith's leadership campaign challengingJeremy Corbyn in the2016 leadership election.[13] Green wrote in theNew Statesman in September 2016: "Even when Jeremy gets that there's a problem, his solutions too often reinforce rather than address the root causes of gender inequality".[14]
Green held her seat at the2017 and2019 general elections.[15] She announced in February 2022 that she would be standing down at the2024 general election.[16] On 9 November 2022, she was announced asMayor of Greater ManchesterAndy Burnham's nominee to succeed BaronessBev Hughes as Deputy Mayor for Policing;[17] in order to take up the post, she applied to becomeCrown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on 10 November, a procedural device which allows MPs to resign.[18]
Following a reshuffle of Labour's shadow ministerial team in October 2011, Green was promoted to junior ShadowMinister for Equalities.[19][20] In October 2013, Green becameShadow Minister for Disabled People.[21]
FollowingJeremy Corbyn's election as Leader of the Labour Party, Green was promoted to theshadow cabinet asShadow Minister for Women and Equalities.[22] In a March 2016 speech, Corbyn advocated the decriminalisation of the sex industry, to which Green commented "without any discussion or consultation with his shadow cabinet, with me as his shadow minister for women and equalities, with women in the PLP or, to the best of my knowledge, with anyone in the wider Labour Party".[14] Sheresigned from this position on 27 June 2016.[23]
Green was a supporter of the Remain campaign during the EU referendum[24][25]
In April 2020,Keir Starmer was elected as Labour Leader and appointed Green to return to the opposition front bench.[26] She held the portfolio of Shadow Minister for Child Poverty Strategy, which shadowed theDepartment for Work and Pensions. In June 2020, she was appointed asShadow Education Secretary, succeedingRebecca Long-Bailey.[27] Green was replaced as Shadow Education Secretary in theNovember 2021 reshuffle and departed the front bench.[28]The Guardian attributed her shadow cabinet dismissal to Starmer's promotion of media performers.[29]
Green has been a member of theWork and Pensions Select Committee,European Scrutiny Committee,Justice Select Committee,Committee of Privileges,Commons Select Committee on Standards (which she chaired from October 2018 to November 2019 and January 2020 to May 2020), theHome Affairs Select Committee, and theLiaison Committee.[30] She contested the chairmanship of theWork and Pensions Committee in June 2015, but was defeated by Labour colleagueFrank Field by 307 votes to 248.[31]
Green was an officer of the followingAll-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs), as of May 2020:[32]
Green married Richard Duncan Mabb in 1985; the couple divorced in 2006.[4][33]
She is a member of theGMB andUnite trade unions,the Fawcett Society, theFabian Society (where she is a vice president[34] and which she chaired from 2016 to 2018), and CPAG.[35][4]
She is a past trustee of theFriends Provident Foundation,Institute for Fiscal Studies,Family and Parenting Institute, Avenues Youth Project, andEnd Child Poverty.[36]
Green was made anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to welfare work" as part of the2005 New Year Honours, where her work in the CPAG and membership of theNational Employment Panel was recognised.[37][36]
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| Preceded by | Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester for Policing and Crime 2023– | Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | Chair of theFabian Society 2016–2018 | Succeeded by Ivana Bartoletti |
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