Jackie Doyle-Price

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Jackie Doyle-Price

MP
Official portrait of Jackie Doyle-Price MP crop 2.jpg
Doyle-Price in 2020
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
In office
14 June 2017 – 27 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byNadine Dorries
Member of Parliament
for Thurrock[1]
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byAndrew MacKinlay
Majority11,482 (24.2%)
Personal details
Born (1969-08-05) 5 August 1969 (age 52)
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
ResidencePurfleet, England
Alma materUniversity College, Durham
Websitewww.jackiedoyleprice.com

Jacqueline Doyle-Price[1] (born 5 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and former civil servant. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thurrock in the 2010 general election.

Early life and career[]

Doyle-Price was born on 5 August 1969 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. She was raised on a council estate, her father being a builder and her mother working at Woolworths.[2] She was educated at Notre Dame High School, Sheffield and studied economics at University College, Durham. After graduating she worked for the Sheffield Enterprise Agency and for South Yorkshire Police. She later became Parliamentary Officer at City of London Corporation and then Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor of the City of London[3] before working as a consumer advocate for the Financial Services Authority.

Parliamentary career[]

Doyle-Price stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for Sheffield Hillsborough in the 2005 general election, coming third with 15.02% of the vote.[4]

Doyle-Price was elected for the Conservative Party as the Member of Parliament for Thurrock at the 2010 general election, by a majority of 92 (0.2%) after two recounts.[5][6] She retained her seat in May 2015, with a majority of 536 after a recount[7][8] and in June 2017 with a majority of 345 - again after a recount.[9] However, in December 2019 Doyle-Price increased her majority massively, to over 11,000 votes, the largest Conservative majority in the seat’s history.

Doyle-Price made her maiden speech on 28 June 2010, speaking about the need for welfare reform. She was prepared to publicly challenge ministers on behalf of her constituents, particularly on transport issues connected with the Dartford Crossing and on the Government postponement of work to improve Junction 30 of the M25.[10] In June 2010, she was appointed to the House of Commons which is responsible for scrutinising Government spending and whether it is delivering value for money. In May 2012 she was elected Chairman of the All Party Gurkha Welfare Group.[11]

Doyle-Price was a co-sponsor of the private member's EU membership referendum bill that was given a second reading on 5 July 2013.[12] On 14 January 2014, she led a debate in Westminster Hall on options for the new Lower Thames Crossing.[13]

Doyle-Price was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 EU membership referendum.[14]

In the House of Commons she has sat on the Public Accounts Committee and Committee of Selection.[15]

Government appointment[]

Following the 2015 general election, Doyle-Price was appointed as an assistant whip.[16] On 2 December 2015 she was one of the tellers for the "Ayes" (those MPs supporting UK bombing in Syria) and on 1 February 2017 she was the government teller who announced the result of the vote to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty.[17][18] Following the 2017 election she was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Health.[19] In July 2017, she spoke in parliament in her new role, answering a question from a DUP "shadow".[20]

In October 2018, she was appointed as Minister for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, a new position in the Department of Health and Social Care, and co-chaired the Women's Mental Health Taskforce.[21][22] She left the government following the election of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party.[23]

Partner employment[]

Doyle-Price employs her partner Mark Coxshall as her part-time Office Manager on a salary up to £30,000.[24] The practice of MPs employing family members has been criticised by some sections of the media on the lines that it promotes nepotism.[25][26] Although MPs who were first elected in 2017 have been banned from employing family members, the restriction is not retrospective – meaning that Doyle-Price's employment of her partner is lawful.[27]

Coxshall, who has been a Conservative Party Councillor in Thurrock since 2010, was investigated in August 2013 by the Police for allegedly 'racist' comments made about travellers; he denied the allegations and was not subsequently prosecuted.[28][29]

LGBT+ issues[]

In July 2020, Doyle-Price was critical of the availability of what she described as "dangerous" gender-affirming healthcare for trans children. She said that the movement for trans rights was "regressive".[30] Earlier in the year on International Women's Day, Doyle-Price suggested in parliament that new legislation was needed to revise the provisions for single-sex spaces under the Equality Act 2010.[31]

In December 2020, Doyle-Price criticised Eddie Izzard for asking to be referred to with she/her pronouns, stating: "Being a straight man who likes to cross dress is not being a lesbian in a man's body. No man with respect for women would appropriate female same-sex attraction for themselves."[32]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010. p. 8742.
  2. ^ "Jackie Doyle-Price: How I went from a Sheffield council estate to being a Tory MP in Essex". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Tories Select Jackie Doyle-Price for Thurrock MP". Thurrock Conservatives. 18 July 2007. Archived from the original on 9 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Profile on Jackie Doyle-Price, Thurrock's new MP". Thurrock Gazette. 7 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011.
  5. ^ "Thurrock Parliamentary constituency – Election 2015". BBC News. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Jackie wins Thurrock for Tories". The Enquirer. 7 May 2010. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  7. ^ "The Comeback Queen: Jackie Doyle Price defends her seat in Thurrock". Your Thurrock. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Result: Conservative hold Thurrock after recount". ITV News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Tories pip Labour at post in Thurrock". BBC News. 9 June 2017. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017.
  10. ^ Your Thurrock report Archived 1 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 29 June 2010.
  11. ^ "Jackie Doyle-Price". Conservatives.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010.
  12. ^ Profile Archived 8 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine, politics.co.uk; accessed 6 August 2014.
  13. ^ "Democracy Live" Archived 20 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, bbc.co.uk; accessed 6 August 2014.
  14. ^ Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016). "Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Jackie Doyle-Price". Parliament UK. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  16. ^ "Her Majesty's Government: December 2015". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 13 May 2015.
  17. ^ Sparrow, Andrew; Perraudin, Frances; MacAskill, Ewen; Sparrow, Andrew (3 December 2015). "Cameron wins Syria airstrikes vote by majority of 174 – as it happened". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016.
  18. ^ "Government sets out Brexit plan". BBC News. 2 February 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  19. ^ "Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price to be health minister under Jeremy Hunt". Thurrock Gazette. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017.
  20. ^ Staff Reporter (9 July 2017). "Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price probed on mental health". Your Thurrock. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017.
  21. ^ "Minister given task to reduce suicide rate". BBC News. 10 October 2018.
  22. ^ "The Women's Mental Health Taskforce report". GOV.UK. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  23. ^ Speight, Neil (27 July 2019). "MP Jackie looking forward to borough challenges in parliament after leaving government". Thurrock Independent.
  24. ^ "IPSA". Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. GOV.UK. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  25. ^ "One in five MPs employs a family member: the full list revealed". The Daily Telegraph. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  26. ^ Mason, Rowena (29 June 2015). "Keeping it in the family: new MPs continue to hire relatives as staff". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  27. ^ "MPs banned from employing spouses after election in expenses crackdown". London Evening Standard. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  28. ^ "Police look into 'racist' comments by councillor". The Independent. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  29. ^ "CPS says Thurrock councillor will not face prosecution". The Enquirer. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  30. ^ "Jackie Doyle-Price: Tory MP claims trans equality movement is 'regressive'". PinkNews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  31. ^ Duffy, Nick (10 March 2020). "Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price wants to 'devise a law' to keep trans women out of women-only spaces". PinkNews. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  32. ^ Wakefield, Lily (29 December 2020). "Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price defends voting against rights for lesbians while also policing who can be a lesbian". PinkNews. Retrieved 16 January 2021.

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Andrew MacKinlay 		Member of Parliament for Thurrock
2010–present 		Incumbent
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