HISTORIC PRESS RELEASE : Alan Johnson Appointed as Treasury PPS [December 1997]

The press release issued by HM Treasury on 18 December 1997.

The appointment of Alan Johnson MP as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Dawn Primarolo, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, was announced today.

Alan Johnson MP (Hull West and Hessle)

Mr Johnson, 47, was elected MP for Hull West and Hessle in May 1997.

Before entering Parliament, Mr Johnson was the General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union. He sat on the National Executive Committee between 1995 and 1997, and was a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) between 1993 and 1995.