Ian Austin

The Lord Austin of Dudley
Official portrait, 2017
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office
9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byIain Wright
Succeeded byBob Neill
Minister for the West Midlands
In office
6 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byLiam Byrne
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Assistant Government Whip
In office
5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Chief WhipNick Brown
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
27 June 2007 – 4 October 2008
Serving with Angela Smith
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byKeith Hill
Succeeded byJon Trickett
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
14 September 2020
Life Peerage
Member of Parliament
for Dudley North
In office
5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019
Preceded byRoss Cranston
Succeeded byMarco Longhi
Personal details
Born
Ian Christopher Austin

(1965-03-06) 6 March 1965 (age 59)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Political partyNon-affiliated (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
Labour (1983–2019)
Alma materUniversity of Essex
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Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent, and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.