Sarah McCarthy-Fry | |
|---|---|
| Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury | |
| In office 18 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Kitty Ussher |
| Succeeded by | David Gauke |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
| In office 9 June 2009 – 18 June 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Kitty Ussher |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Follett |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of Schools | |
| In office 5 October 2008 – 8 June 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | The Lord Adonis |
| Succeeded by | Diana Johnson |
| Member of Parliament forPortsmouth North | |
| In office 5 May 2005 – 12 April 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Syd Rapson |
| Succeeded by | Penny Mordaunt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sarah Louise Macaree (1955-02-04)4 February 1955 (age 70) Portsmouth, England |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse | Tony McCarthy |
Sarah Louise McCarthy-Fry (néeMacaree; born 4 February 1955) is aBritishLabour Co-operative politician. She was theMember of Parliament forPortsmouth North from the2005 general election to2010. She wasExchequer Secretary to the Treasury in the last phase of theLabour government ofGordon Brown.
McCarthy-Fry is the daughter of a defence worker of Scottish descent. Fry is the surname of her first husband, McCarthy of her second. She was educated atPortsmouth High School. She worked for the multinational defence engineering companyGKN Westland at Portsmouth, and later as financial controller for GKN Aerospace[1] atCowes,Isle of Wight.
McCarthy-Fry attempted selection as theLabour candidate for the seat ofPortsmouth North in 1997, and later becameSyd Rapson's campaign manager. Her main political interests are trade and industry, defence and the social economy. She campaigned in favour ofidentity cards after a constituency survey indicated a large majority were in favour of them, and stressed her support for their introduction in her maiden speech after her election in 2005.
In 2006, McCarthy-Fry was made PPS toJohn Healey, theFinancial Secretary to the Treasury. In Prime MinisterGordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle in 2007, she was made PPS toGeoff Hoon, theChief Whip. On 5 October 2008, she was promoted to become aParliamentary Under-Secretary of State in theDepartment for Children, Schools and Families replacingLord Adonis, who was moved from Education to Transport. This was a controversial move that brought about much speculation in the press afterward; Adonis was seen to be a key education reformer and it was assumed that the government no longer had education as a priority. McCarthy-Fry was moved to theDepartment for Communities and Local Government in the June 2009 reshuffle.
However, on 17 June 2009 she was appointedExchequer Secretary to the Treasury, replacingKitty Ussher after the latter resigned.[2] She was at the Department for Communities and Local Government for just one week.
At the general election on 6 May 2010, McCarthy-Fry lost her seat to theConservative candidatePenny Mordaunt. Along withAnne Snelgrove, she co-ordinatedEd Balls's campaign in theLabour party leadership election which followed.
In May 2009The Daily Telegraph revealed that McCarthy-Fry had attempted to claim on her expenses for a £100 set of hair straighteners, though the claim was refused. Items the taxpayer did fund included £333 worth of bedding and a sewing box.[3]
Soon after leaving parliament, McCarthy-Fry joinedGKN Aerospace and was the company’s Financial Controller for Cowes, Isle of Wight, from 2010 to 2012, and then its Finance Director for Cowes, Isle of Wight, and Western Approach, Bristol, from 2012 to 2020, when she retired at the age of 65.[4]
McCarthy-Fry married her first husband, Roger Fry, in 1973, and her second, Tony McCarthy, in 1997; she has four grown-up children.[4]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forPortsmouth North 2005–2010 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools and Learners 2008–2009 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Unknown | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 2009 | Succeeded by |
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