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William Ernest "Bill" Rammell (born 10 October 1959) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Harlow since 1997, and is currently the Minister of State for the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
[edit] Personal lifeRammell went to Burnt Mill Comprehensive on First Avenue in Harlow. At the University of Wales, Cardiff he studied for a BA in French and Politics, gaining a degree in 1982. He was president of Cardiff University Students' Union from 1982-3. He was a management trainee at British Rail from 1983-4. From 1984-7, he was a Regional Officer at the NUS. From 1987-9, he was Head of Youth Services for Basildon Council. He was the General Manager of King's College London Students' Union from 1990-4, and worked as the Business Manager of the University of London Union from 1994-7. He was a member of Harlow District Council from 1985 to 1997. He married Beryl Jarhall on 1 January 1983. They have a son (born September 1989) and a daughter (born November 1992). [edit] Parliamentary careerBill Rammell has held the following positions:
In the 2005 election, he had the 3rd smallest majority of any Labour MP, at just 97 votes. The result was so close that the final declaration had to be delayed 2 days after voting, in order to give exhausted counting officials time to rest. As Higher Education minister Bill Rammell has been strongly supportive of top-up fees claiming in 2005 that without such fees it would be necessary to put "3p or 4p on the standard rate of tax" [1]. He elsewhere provided a different estimate stating that to replace the income from top-up fees, estimated by the government to be £1.4 billion [2], would necessitate a requirement "to put up income tax by 3%" [3]. The amount raised by the UK in income tax in 2003-2004 was £120 billion [4]. In September 2007 he withdrew funding from some adult and continuing education in UK universities. Rammell is a Pro-European, who is supportive of joining the Single European Currency, as verified by his time as Chair of Labour's Britain in Europe Group. He was the first British government minister to visit North Korea, in September 2004. In February 2008, Bill Rammell announced plans[5] to create a "national" database of children's school records and exam results which will make up a publicly-owned CV. The CV and "Learner Number" will stay with the child throughout adult life until retirement and only the British government will be able to remove records from their database entry. The plan will, however, only apply to English children as education is a devolved matter. In October 2009 following criticism in Sir Thomas Legg's audit of MPs' expenses, Rammell was ordered to repay £2,782 of wrongful claims. [edit] Talks with LibyaIn September, 2009, Mr Rammell confirmed he told Libya that the Prime Minister did not want to see the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi (who had been serving a life sentence) die in prison,[6] but made it clear that the decision was exclusively one for the Scottish Executive.[7] [edit] Voting RecordHow Bill Rammell voted on key issues since 2001: [8]
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