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The Right Honourable
Pat McFadden
MP
	The Right Honourable; Pat McFadden ; MP
	;
	Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Office Created
	Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
	In office; 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Unknown
Succeeded by	Lord Young (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
	Member of Parliament; for Wolverhampton South East
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Dennis Turner
Majority	10,495 (37.1%)
Born	26 March 1965 (age 44); Paisley, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	www.patmcfadden.com

For other persons named Pat McFadden, see Pat McFadden (disambiguation).

Patrick Bosco McFadden (born 26 March 1965, Paisley) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. Currently, he is a Minister of State in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, a post he has held since a reshuffle on 5 June 2009; he is now permitted to attend Cabinet, though not as a full member.

[edit] Early life and career

He is the son of Annie and the late James McFadden, both native Irish language speakers from the Falcarragh area of northern County Donegal in Ireland. He went to Holy Cross RC Primary School on Calder Street and Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Crosshill, south-east Glasgow. McFadden studied Politics at the University of Edinburgh, gaining an MA in 1988, and was chair of Scottish Labour Students in 1986-7 before becoming a researcher in 1988 for Donald Dewar, then Labour's Scottish Affairs spokesman. In 1993 he left this role to become a speechwriter and policy adviser to the Labour leader John Smith. Prior to becoming an MP he worked in several roles for Tony Blair, both in opposition and government, and was the Prime Minister's Political Secretary from 2002.

[edit] Parliamentary career

McFadden was elected at the 2005 general election, after Dennis Turner retired. In the 2006 reshuffle he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Social Exclusion at the Cabinet Office. In the 2007 reshuffle he was promoted to Minister of State in the then newly created Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with responsibility for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs. In October 2008, when Lord Mandelson replaced John Hutton as Business Secretary, McFadden took on duties as his Deputy in order to represent the Department in the House of Commons as Mandelson is a peer and can only address the Lords and therefore needs a counterpart in the Commons. McFadden was contemporaneously appointed to the Privy Council.

[edit] Personal life

His partner, Marianna, had a son on 16 May 2009 after 34 hours of labour.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Dennis Turner	Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East 2005–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Unknown	Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs 2007–2009	Succeeded by The Lord Young as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
New creation	Minister of State for Business 2009–present	Incumbent