Janis Hughes
Encyclopedia
Janis Hughes is a Scottish
Labour
politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Glasgow Rutherglen
constituency from 1999 to 2007.
Prior to her election she worked as a nurse and an NHS
administrator. She stood down as an MSP at the 2007 election. http://election.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2248382005
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...
for Glasgow Rutherglen
Glasgow Rutherglen (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Rutherglen was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election....
constituency from 1999 to 2007.
Prior to her election she worked as a nurse and an NHS
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
administrator. She stood down as an MSP at the 2007 election. http://election.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2248382005
External links
- Janis Hughes MSP personal site
- Janis Hughes MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
- Janis Hughes MSP profile at the site of Scottish Labour