John Healey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Adult Skills, DFES

John Healey MP was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Adult Skills in June 2001.

Mr Healey was previously a member of the Education and Employment Select Committee and Parliamentary aide to the Chancellor Gordon Brown. He has been Member of Parliament for Wentworth in South Yorkshire since 1997.

John Healey was born in Wakefield and educated at Lady Lumley’s Comprehensive School, Pickering, and at Peter’s School in York and Christ’s College, Cambridge. Mr Healey worked in the voluntary sector from 1984 to 1990 with the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation and MIND campaigning to improve rights and services for disabled people.

From 1990 to 1994 Mr Healey worked in communications for Issue Communications, a PR company, and the MSF Union. He was Campaigns Director for the TUC from 1994 to 1997. Mr Healey has also been a part time tutor at the Open University’s Business School.

Mr Healey is married with one child.