Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee
In office 3 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Preceded by
Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by
Malcolm Rifkind
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 11 May 2005 – 6 October 2008
Prime Minister
Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by
The Baroness Symons
Succeeded by
Bill Rammell
Minister of State for Higher Education
In office 10 September 2004 – 11 May 2005
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Alan Johnson
Succeeded by
Bill Rammell
Minister of State for Transport
In office 13 June 2003 – 10 September 2004
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
John Spellar
Succeeded by
Tony McNulty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In office 11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Janet Anderson
Succeeded by
Andrew McIntosh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
In office 28 July 1998 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Nigel Griffiths
Succeeded by
Nigel Griffiths
Member of Parliament for Pontypridd
In office 23 February 1989 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by
Brynmor John
Succeeded by
Owen Smith
Personal details
Born
(1946-11-27) 27 November 1946 (age 77) Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Nationality
British
Political party
Labour
Spouse
Eirlys Davies
Alma mater
Middlesex University University of Warwick Anglia Ruskin University
Occupation
Politician
Kim Scott Howells (born 27 November 1946) is a Welsh Labour Party former politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 1989 to 2010, and held a number of ministerial positions within the Blair and Brown governments.
Blair and Brown governments. Howells is the son of Glanville Howells, a Communist lorry driver, and of Joan Glenys Howells. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales...
Controversy has also come from other directions, including Culture Minister KimHowells criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna) swearing, prize judge...
election, a much narrower margin than that of the previous Labour MP, KimHowells, with the Labour majority falling by 25.7%. He then joined the Welsh...
June 2001 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Lifelong Learning KimHowells May 1997 - July 1998 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Margaret...
doing his duty and taking someone to work who wanted to go to work." KimHowells, speaking for the South Wales National Union of Mineworkers, blamed the...
by KimHowells Succeeded by Barry Gardiner In office 5 May 1997 – 28 July 1998 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by John Taylor Succeeded by Kim Howells...
5 October 2008 – 8 June 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown Preceded by KimHowells Succeeded by Ivan Lewis Minister of State for Higher Education In office...
Hodge June 2001 – June 2003 Alan Johnson June 2003 – September 2004 KimHowells September 2004 – May 2005 Minister for Children Margaret Hodge June 2003...
has received considerable criticism. In 2002, after Culture Minister KimHowells described the Turner Prize as "conceptual bullshit", Prince Charles wrote...
Tony Blair Preceded by The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston Succeeded by KimHowells Minister of State for the Armed Forces In office 29 July 1999 – 8 June...
previous years, but because of the comments of then Culture Minister KimHowells. His comments that the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain consisted...
election, he came third with 13.5% of the vote behind the Labour candidate KimHowells and the Plaid Cymru candidate Syd Morgan. Evans also stood in the 1991...
sympathetic lecturers and students who had taken part (including Tom Nairn and KimHowells) were dismissed. Later the college was merged with Middlesex Polytechnic...
office 28 July 1998 – 29 July 1999 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by KimHowells Succeeded by Malcolm Wicks Member of Parliament for Norwich South In...
services of a papier-mâché bull.[citation needed] When UK Culture Minister KimHowells referred to modern art trends as "conceptual bullshit", the Cows acquired...
office 8 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by KimHowells Succeeded by Nigel Griffiths Economic Secretary to the Treasury In office...
Co-operative Pontefract and Castleford Yvette Cooper Labour Pontypridd Dr KimHowells Labour Poole Robert Syms Conservative Poplar and Canning Town Jim Fitzpatrick...
Murphy 2005–2008 Rt Hon Margaret Beckett January–October 2008 Rt Hon KimHowells 2008–2010 Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC 2010–2015 Rt Hon Dominic...
Conservative Pontefract and Castleford Geoffrey Lofthouse Labour Pontypridd KimHowells Labour Poole John Ward Conservative Portsmouth North Peter Griffiths...
sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM such as KimHowells, Jim Parker and Roger Windsor. It was alleged that, of the money donated...
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