Michael McMahon (Scottish politician)

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Michael McMahon MSP

Member of the Scottish Parliament for Uddingston and Bellshill Hamilton North and Bellshill (1999-2011)
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 1999
Preceded by	Constituency Created
Majority	714
Personal details
Born	18 September 1961 (1961-09-18) (age 50)
Political party	Scottish Labour Party

Michael McMahon (born 18 September 1961) is a Scottish Labour politician and is the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Uddingston and Bellshill since 2011. He was previously the member for the former seat of Hamilton North and Bellshill. McMahon has been the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Local Government for Labour in the Scottish Parliament since 2007. He is noted for attempting to abolish the not proven verdict.^[1]

1 Family
2 Career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Family

Married to Margaret, with three children.

His daughter Siobhan McMahon was his parliamentary researcher and became an MSP in 2011^[2]

[edit] Career

He went to Our Lady's High School, Motherwell (1973-1977). Worked as a welder at Terex Equipment Ltd, Motherwell (1977-1992). McMahon has been a trade union activist since school, and was Chair of the GMB and the STUC Youth Committees. He was also the branch Equality Officer in the GMB and a member of the trade union's Racial Advisory Committee.

In 1992, went to Glasgow Caledonian University and graduated in 1996 with a BA (Hons) in Social Sciences (Politics and Sociology).

Then worked as a political researcher (1996-1999), before being elected to parliament. He is an adviser to the Irish Diaspora in Scotland Association

McMahon is a supporter of faith schools and has publicly defended them, claiming there is no evidence they contribute to sectarianism.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Michael McMahon MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
Michael McMahon MSP profile at the site of Scottish Labour
Michael McMahon MSP personal website

Scottish Parliament
Preceded by New constituency	Member of the Scottish Parliament for Uddingston and Bellshill 2011–present	Incumbent
New constituency	Member of the Scottish Parliament for Hamilton North and Bellshill 1999–2011	Constituency abolished

v t e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Central Scotland region

Elected in the 2011 election

Constituency MSPs	Alex Neil (SNP, Airdrie and Shotts) · Elaine Smith (Lab, Coatbridge and Chryston) · Jamie Hepburn (SNP, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) · Linda Fabiani (SNP, East Kilbride) · Angus MacDonald (SNP, Falkirk East) · Michael Matheson (SNP, Falkirk West) · Christina McKelvie (SNP, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) · John Pentland (Lab, Motherwell and Wishaw) · Michael McMahon (Lab, Uddingston and Bellshill)

Additional Members	Clare Adamson (SNP) · Richard Lyle (SNP) · Mark Griffin (Lab) · Margaret Mitchell (Con) · Siobhan McMahon (Lab) · Margaret McCulloch (Lab) · John Wilson (SNP)

Labour (6 seats), SNP (9 seats), Conservative (1 seat)

Scottish Labour Party

Headquarters: John Smith House, 145 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 4RE

Leaders

Donald Dewar (1999–2000) · Henry McLeish (2000–2001) · Jack McConnell (2001–2007) · Wendy Alexander (2007–2008) · Iain Gray (2008–2011) · Johann Lamont (2011–)

Deputy Leaders

Henry McLeish (1999–2000) · Cathy Jamieson (2000–2008) · Johann Lamont (2008–2011) · Anas Sarwar (2011–)

General Secretaries

Jack McConnell (1992–1998) · Alex Rowley (1998–1999) · Lesley Quinn (1999–2008) · Colin Smyth (2008–)

MSP Group

Shadow cabinet	Johann Lamont (leader) · James Kelly (chief whip) · Paul Martin (parliamentary business and chief of staff) Jackie Baillie (health) · Ken Macintosh (finance) · Lewis Macdonald (justice) · Patricia Ferguson (culture/external affairs) Hugh Henry (education) · Claire Baker (rural affairs/environment) · Richard Baker (infrastructure) · Sarah Boyack (local government) · Attending: Kezia Dugdale (youth employment) · Siobhan McMahon (PPS to Johann Lamont)

Deputy spokespersons	Claudia Beamish (environment/climate change) · Neil Bibby (children) · Neil Findlay (skills) · Rhoda Grant (energy and enterprise) · Jenny Marra (justice) · Elaine Murray (housing and transport) · John Pentland (whip) · Drew Smith (social justice) · Richard Simpson (public health)

Backbenchers	Malcolm Chisholm · Helen Eadie · Mary Fee · Iain Gray · Mark Griffin · Hanzala Malik · Margaret McCulloch · Margaret McDougall · Michael McMahon · Duncan McNeil · Anne McTaggart · John Park · Graeme Pearson · Elaine Smith · David Stewart