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Ruth Kelly |
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Secretary of State for Transport
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Ruth Kelly was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Minister for Women until she became Secretary of State for Transport in 2007. She has been MP for Bolton West since 1997.
Ruth was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Skills in December 2004. She joined the Department for Education and Skills in December 2004 after a short spell in the Cabinet Office (September – December 2004) and after three years at HM Treasury where she was, successively, Economic Secretary and, from May 2002, Financial Secretary.
Ruth was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and the LSE, where she gained an MSc in Economics. She worked on The Guardian as an economics writer in the early 1990s before joining the Bank of England. Ruth was elected to Parliament as Member for Bolton West in the 1997 General Election and the following year became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nick Brown at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. |
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