Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office 5 October 2008 – 8 June 2009
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
David Kidney
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate Change, Biodiversity & Waste
In office 2 July 2007 – 5 October 2008
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Dan Norris
Member of Parliament for Lewisham Deptford
In office 11 June 1987 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
John Silkin
Succeeded by
Vicky Foxcroft
Personal details
Born
Joan Mary Anthony
(1943-12-28) 28 December 1943 (age 80) Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales
Nationality
British
Political party
Labour
Spouse(s)
Keith Ruddock (1963–1996; his death) Frank Doran (2010–2017; his death)
Alma mater
Imperial College London
Website
Official website
Dame Joan Mary Ruddock, DBE, PC (née Anthony; born 28 December 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015. Ruddock was Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change until 11 May 2010. She stood down at the 2015 general election.
Dame Joan Mary Ruddock, DBE, PC (née Anthony; born 28 December 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP)...
Soviet links to CND. Allen stood against JoanRuddock for the leadership of CND in 1985 but was defeated. Ruddock responded to the Stasi revelations by saying...
Labour leadership that year: Margaret Beckett Jo Richardson JoanRuddock Clare Short Joan Walley The following members resigned their membership of the...
in Portsmouth. 21 November 2013: The panel only consisted of 3 guests as Joan Bakewell and Tim Stanley were unable to make it due to transport issues....
hold the office of House Speaker. 1997: Full-time Minister for Women (JoanRuddock) – Labour Party 1997: Member who came out as LGBT in office (Angela Eagle)...
Pienaar (2013) Baroness (Doreen) Lawrence of Clarendon, (2014) Dame JoanRuddock (2016) Bridget Prentice (2016) The London Borough of Lewisham is divided...
for Lewisham Deptford Incumbent Assumed office 7 May 2015 Preceded by JoanRuddock Majority 32,913 (59.4%) Member of Lewisham Council for Brockley In office...
Cross Fire Parents' Committee, Lewisham Council leader Steve Bullock and JoanRuddock, MP for Lewisham Deptford. The victims were also commemorated in January...
O'Brien October 2008 – June 2009 JoanRuddock June 2009 – May 2010 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State JoanRuddock October 2008 – June 2009 David Kidney...
Retrieved 14 May 2009. Ruddock, J. (19 March 2008). "House of Commons Deposited Paper DEP2008-0858: Letter from JoanRuddock MP to Andrew Tyrie MP regarding...
Nuclear Disarmament (CND), with much of its leadership: (Bruce Kent, JoanRuddock, Dan Smith and Meg Beresford were all END supporters). END's insistence...
Street in 1998. She worked as a Parliamentary researcher for Lewisham MP JoanRuddock from 1999 to 2005, and as campaigns manager for the charity Clothes Aid...
June 2001 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security JoanRuddock (Deputy Minister for Women) May 1997 – July 1998 Hugh Bayley January...
office 9 June 2009 – 6 May 2010 Prime Minister Gordon Brown Preceded by JoanRuddock Succeeded by Richard Benyon (Natural Environment, Water and Rural Affairs)...
Change and attended the Copenhagen Summit in December that year with JoanRuddock and Ed Miliband. In May 2010, Thornberry was returned as MP for Islington...
of State in the Department for Energy and Climate Change, replacing JoanRuddock. After losing his seat Kidney was employed as head of policy at the Chartered...
Peterson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Ontario 1943 – JoanRuddock, Welsh politician 1944 – Sandra Faber, American astronomer and academic...
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