Helen Goodman | |
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 Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | |
| In office 9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Kitty Ussher |
| Succeeded by | Maria Miller |
| Deputy Leader of the House of Commons | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – 5 October 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Leader | Harriet Harman |
| Preceded by | Paddy Tipping |
| Succeeded by | Chris Bryant |
| Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland | |
| In office 5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Derek Foster |
| Succeeded by | Dehenna Davison |
| Shadow portfolios | |
| 2010–2011 | Shadow Minister for Prisons |
| 2011–2014 | Shadow Minister for Culture and Media |
| 2014–2015 | Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform |
| 2017–2019 | Shadow Minister for Americas, Far East and Overseas Territories |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Helen Catherine Goodman 2 January 1958 Nottingham, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Charles Seaford |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
Helen Catherine Goodman (born 2 January 1958) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from 2007 to 2008 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2009 to 2010. She also served in government as an Assistant Whip from 2008 to 2009.
Goodman was a Shadow Minister for Justice from 2010 to 2011, Shadow Minister for Culture and Media from 2011 to 2014 and Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform from 2014 to 2015. She was briefly a Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions in 2010, and returned to the front bench as a Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2017 to 2019.