Phil Hope MP –
Parliamentary Secretary
Biography
Phil Hope was elected Member of Parliament for Corby and East
Northamptonshire in 1997 and was appointed Minister for the Third sector in
June 2007. Previous to this, he served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State for Skills, Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Prescott, the
Deputy Prime Minister and to Nick Raynsford as Minister of State for
Housing and Planning. Phil was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in June 2003 with
responsibility for building regulations, regulatory and public sector
reform, e-local government, the Fire Service College and the Local
Government Pension Scheme. At ODPM he also supported the
Minister for Local Government, regional governance and fire, Nick
Raynsford.
He was elected to Kettering Borough Council during the 1980s and
Northamptonshire County Council between 1993 and 1997 where he chaired the
Equal Opportunities Committee.
Formerly a teacher at Kettering School for Boys, he has also been a youth
policy advisor to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Head of
the Young Volunteer Resources Unit at the National Youth Bureau and a
management consultant to not-for-profit organisations. Phil Hope was
educated at Wandsworth Comprehensive School and St Luke's College,
Exeter. He is married with two children ” a daughter who attends a local
secondary school, and a son attending university.
