John Denham (politician)

The Right Honourable John Denham FRSA
Official portrait, 2009
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Hazel Blears
Succeeded by	Eric Pickles
Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Alan Johnson[a]
Succeeded by	The Lord Mandelson[b]
Shadow Cabinet posts Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills In office 8 October 2010 – 6 October 2011 Leader Ed Miliband Preceded by Pat McFadden Succeeded by Chuka Umunna Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010 Leader Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband Preceded by Caroline Spelman Succeeded by Caroline Flint
Junior ministerial offices Minister of State for Policing In office 11 June 2001 – 12 June 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Paul Boateng Succeeded by Hazel Blears Minister of State for Health Services In office 30 December 1998 – 11 June 2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Alan Milburn Succeeded by Jacqui Smith Minister of State for Social Security In office 29 July 1998 – 30 December 1998 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Frank Field Succeeded by Stephen Timms
Further offices held Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition In office 8 October 2011 – 17 April 2013 Leader Ed Miliband Preceded by Anne McGuire Michael Dugher Succeeded by Karen Buck Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee In office 14 June 2003 – 27 June 2007 Preceded by Chris Mullin Succeeded by Keith Vaz Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen In office 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015 Preceded by Christopher Chope Succeeded by Royston Smith
Personal details
Born	(1953-07-15) 15 July 1953 (age 71) Seaton, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Ruth Eleanor Dixon (Divorced)
Education	Woodroffe School[1]
Alma mater	University of Southampton

John Yorke Denham FRSA^[2] (born 15 July 1953) is an English politician who served as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen from 1992 to 2015.^[1]

Denham served in government under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003, as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 1997 to 1998 and a Minister of State from 1998 to 2003. He resigned from government over the Iraq War in 2003, and subsequently became Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Denham returned to government in 2007 as a Member of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet, which he served in until Labour's election defeat in 2010.

He was briefly Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in 2010, and appointed by opposition leader Ed Miliband as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills later in the same year. Denham announced in 2011 that he would be standing down from Parliament at the next election, and held his final front bench position as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Miliband from 2011 to 2013.

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