Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee
Acting 15 May 2019 – 12 June 2019
Preceded by
Andrew Murrison
Succeeded by
Simon Hoare
Minister for Sport
In office 20 October 1999 – 7 June 2001
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Tony Banks
Succeeded by
Richard Caborn
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
In office 28 July 1998 – 29 July 1999
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
The Lord Williams of Mostyn
Succeeded by
The Lord Bassam of Brighton
Parliamentary offices
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 13 October 2020
Member of Parliament for Vauxhall
In office 15 June 1989 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by
Stuart Holland
Succeeded by
Florence Eshalomi
Personal details
Born
(1946-06-21) 21 June 1946 (age 78) Mallusk, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Political party
Non-affiliated (2020–present)[1] Labour (before 2019)
Residence
Northern Ireland
Alma mater
University of Ulster London Guildhall University
Website
www.katehoey.com
Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey[2] (born 21 June 1946), better known as Kate Hoey, is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001. During the 1970s Hoey was involved in radical far-left groups but by the end of the decade became involved with the Labour Party. Hoey remained a member of the Labour Party for several decades while she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019, but resigned from the party in 2020.
Hoey has attracted a high level of attention throughout her career, but particularly in the 2010s, holding many socially conservative views that brought her into conflict with fellow members of Labour. Early in her life, Hoey was radically in favour of a United Ireland; however, in more recent decades she has pulled away from this view, declaring in 2017 "I’m pro-union, I’ll do anything to make sure that the United Kingdom has Northern Ireland as an integral part of it on the same terms as any other part of the United Kingdom when we leave the EU."[3]
^@CatharineHoey (14 December 2019). "I will not have a vote for Labours new Leader as no longer a member of @UKLabour but with @CarolineFlintMP not an MP there would have been no-one I could have supported anyway" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 December 2019 – via Twitter.
^"Kate Hoey chooses title of Baroness of Lylehill & Rathlin after townland of her idyllic childhood". Belfast News Letter. 19 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
^Staunton, Denis (10 December 2017). "Kate Hoey: an Antrim-born MP who said Ireland should pay for Border". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey (born 21 June 1946), better known as KateHoey, is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary...
commitment to providing a new one not far from the present location." KateHoey, MP for Vauxhall, was initially in favour of the development and was quoted...
for the Vauxhall parliamentary constituency on 27 October 2019, after KateHoey, a long-standing MP of 30 years, had announced she would not stand again...
Office minister Lord Caine (in a written reply to a question submitted by KateHoey) that the UK Government had spent a total of £196,567 on legal fees associated...
eurosceptic Labour MPs: Graham Stringer, Kelvin Hopkins, and Roger Godsiff. KateHoey was another co chair in the group, until she reportedly resigned in February...
Hoey (born 1960), American guitarist, singer and songwriter Iris Hoey (1885–1979), British actress James Hoey (disambiguation), several people Kate Hoey...
(Conservative): Leave.EU KateHoey, former Labour MP and co-founder of Grassroots Out For Graham Stringer (Labour): KateHoey, former Labour MP and co-founder...
could only be referred to as 'Location 23'. It was officially revealed by KateHoey under parliamentary privilege in 1993. It is often said that the tower...
parties including Peter Bone, Tom Pursglove, Liam Fox of the Conservatives, KateHoey of Labour, Nigel Farage of UKIP and Sammy Wilson of the DUP. The left...
activity. Bryson has described life peer KateHoey as a "close personal friend." In January 2022 Bryson thanked Hoey and TUV leader Jim Allister for assisting...
Representations were made to the (then) Home Office Ministers KateHoey and Paul Boateng. On 19 May 1999, Hoey enclosed a letter from Mr Boateng (its date had been...
remain in the customs union in the event of a no deal Brexit. Frank Field, KateHoey, John Mann and Stringer were the only Labour MPs to oppose the amendment...
Rhodesian flag. A British parliamentary motion put forward by Labour MP KateHoey in February 2013 to retrospectively condemn the Viscount attacks and memorialise...
their anti-Brexit policy. The decision was criticised by politicians KateHoey and Jon Cruddas. In August 2021, it was ruled that Embery had been unfairly...
and poet (d. 2021) 1946 – Per Eklund, Swedish race car driver 1946 – KateHoey, Northern Irish-British academic and politician, Minister for Sport and...
On 4 October 2008 the newly completed Sports Centre was opened by MP KateHoey. This multimillion-pound project took five years to complete and increased...
scrutiny and censure in the media for his business dealings, which led MP KateHoey to state in Parliament that Venables was unfit for the post of national...
"laid" five times. Following her comments, she was accused by Labour MP KateHoey of trivialising parliament. At the 2015 general election, Mordaunt was...
McDonagh (1997) Mitcham and Morden The five absent female Labour MPs were KateHoey, Clare Short, Glenda Jackson, Lynne Jones and Julie Morgan. All-women...
on I'm a Celebrity". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2022. Nicholson, Kate (23 May 2024). "Two ministers and deputy speaker Eleanor Laing join ranks...
State for Home Affairs The Lord Williams of Mostyn May 1997 – July 1998 KateHoey July 1998 – July 1999 The Lord Bassam of Brighton July 1999 – June 2001...
Hannan and Labour MP KateHoey arguing for a leave vote. The Daily Express held a debate on 3 June, featuring Nigel Farage, KateHoey and Conservative MP...
former British Minister for Sport and representative of the City of London KateHoey, General Secretary of The Football Association Alex Horne, and England...
Buck (Lab), Westminster North and Regents Park, ex-Transport Minister KateHoey (Lab), Vauxhall, ex-Sport Minister Michael Meacher (Lab), Oldham West...
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