HISTORIC PRESS RELEASE : John Healey MP appointed as PPS to Chancellor Gordon Brown [September 1999]

The press release issued by HM Treasury on 5 September 1999.

John Healey MP (Wentworth) has been appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.

Educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, Mr Healey was a journalist/deputy editor for the House Magazine from 1983-84. He was a disability campaigner for three national charities from 1984-90 and campaigns manager at Issue Communications from 1990-92. From 1991-94, Mr Healey was a part-time tutor for the Open University Business School, and was Head of Communications at MSF Union from 1992-94. Mr Healey was Campaigns Director of the TUC from 1994 until he entered Parliament as MP for Wentworth on 1 May 1997.

Born in 1960, Mr Healey is married with one son.