The Rt Hon Ivan Lewis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Care Services)
Incumbent
Assumed office  15 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Norman Warner
Member of Parliament for Bury South
In office 1 May 1997 – present
Preceded by	David Sumberg
Born	March 4, 1967 (1967-03-04) (age 41) Prestwich, Bury, UK
Political party	Labour

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Early life

Lewis was educated at the (former independent) William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester, Stand Sixth Form College (former Stand Grammar School, now closed) and Bury College. William Hulme's Grammar School is an Academy (an independent school pre- September 2007 in Whalley Range, Bury College is an institute of higher learning for the borough of Bury, England.

Member of Parliament

In government

Lewis was moved to a junior ministerial position in the Department of Health in the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2006. The Department of Health (DH is a department of the United Kingdom government but with responsibility for government policy for England alone on Health He previously held junior ministerial posts in the Treasury and the Department for Education and Skills, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Stephen Byers when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing The Department for Education and Skills (DfES was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007 A Parliamentary Private Secretary ( PPS) is a role given to a United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP by a senior minister in government or shadow Stephen John Byers (born 13 April 1953) is a British Politician. The Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry before the June 28, 2007 On 29 June 2007 in Brown's first reshuffle as Prime Minister he was re-appointed to the post of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of Health, the only junior minister to survive the reshuffle where he has held on to the brief for social care and added mental health services. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom A Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, in the United Kingdom government structure is a minister who is junior to a Minister of State who is in turn The Department of Health (DH is a department of the United Kingdom government but with responsibility for government policy for England alone on Health His has served as as Chief Executive of Jewish Social Services in Manchester.

Ivan Lewis also consistently supported plans to close Prestwich Arts College, in his local area, due to falling pupil numbers. Prestwich Arts College (formerly Prestwich Community High School) opened in 1936 as Heys Road School for Boys The plans have now been dismissed (voted out 3-0 by the School's Organisation Committee).

Controversy

In 2008, Ivan Lewis was described in the House of Commons as an "arsehole" by Greg Mulholland MP, following Lewis's refusal to allow Mulholland to intervene to correct statements Lewis had made in debate on hospice funding. Asshole (or arsehole in British English) is Slang for the Anus and can be used to describe an unpleasant person Gregory Thomas Mulholland (born 31 August 1970) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom, and is Member of Parliament ^[1].

Personal life

He is Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Labour Friends of Israel is a UK Parliament -based Lobby group promoting support within the British Labour Party for a strong bilateral relationship between The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET is a British charity founded by Greville Janner and Merlyn Rees Its chairman is Greville Janner and its president Before his election he was the Chief Executive of Manchester Jewish Social Services. He married Juliette Fox in June 1990 in Stockport and they have two sons. Ivan is a lifelong Manchester City fan. [1]

References

External links

• Prestwich Arts College's Website
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Ivan Lewis MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Ivan Lewis MP
• Constituency web site - Your Labour MP: Ivan Lewis
• BBC Politics