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Patricia Hewitt is a former MP for Leicester West.

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Former Labour MP for Leicester West

Entered the House of Commons on 1 May 1997 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Business
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
• Health
• Communities and Local Government
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Transport
• Tattooing: Plastic Surgery
• Aviation: Radio Frequencies
• East Midlands Airport: Radio Frequencies
• Parental Leave
• Waste Disposal: Leicester

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Committee on Issue of Privilege (Police Searches on Parliamentary Estate) (10 Aug 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Secretary of State, Department of Health (11 May 2005 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry ( 8 Jun 2001 to 11 May 2005)
• Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (28 Jul 1999 to 8 Jun 2001)
• Economic Secretary, HM Treasury (28 Jul 1998 to 28 Jul 1999)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Greville Janner
• Barnett Janner
• Harold Nicolson
• Ernest Pickering
• Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
• Alfred Hill
• Joseph Green

Future MPs in this constituency

• Liz Kendall

Recent appearances

• International Women's Day 11 Mar 2010

  I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for what she has just said about the '97 intake of women MPs, of which I was one, of course-and I am delighted to be succeeded in my constituency by another Labour woman candidate. My right hon. and learned Friend has referred several times to the problem of all-male decision making. Does she agree that much more needs to be done to ensure that women...

• Law on Assisted Suicide 10 Mar 2010

  I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her thoughtful response to the debate, but I hope that she will accept that the current law provides no safeguards whatever in relation to the rather large number of deaths that Professor Seale found involved a criminal act, however compassionate the motive, on the part of the doctor or other medical practitioner. More broadly, does she accept that the case...

• Law on Assisted Suicide 10 Mar 2010

  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to raise this important and sensitive issue in the House this evening, Mr. Deputy Speaker. When I served as Health Secretary a few years ago, I became increasingly concerned about the plight of individuals who were seeking an assisted death and who desperately wanted the support of their families, friends and medical practitioners, but who could not-and...

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