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Parmjit Dhanda (Parmjit Singh Dhanda) was born on 17 September, 1971 in London, England, is a British Labour politician. Discover Parmjit Dhanda's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

Popular As Parmjit Singh Dhanda
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Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 17 September, 1971
Birthday 17 September
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1971

Parmjit Singh Dhanda (born 17 September 1971) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester from 2001 until the 2010 general election, succeeding Tess Kingham as the Labour MP for the seat.

Parmjit Singh Dhanda was born on 17 September 1971 in Hillingdon, West London to immigrant Indian Punjabi Sikh parents, and was brought up in Southall.

His mother was a cleaner at a local hospital, whilst his father was a lorry driver.

1993

He was educated at Mellow Lane School, a state Comprehensive School in Hayes, Middlesex, before attending the University of Nottingham, where he received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1993, and an MA in information technology in 1995.

Dhanda was the first ever Minister to serve in the UK Government of Indian Heritage and remains the only Sikh Minister to date.

Dhanda is a British-Indian, a British-Punjabi and a British-Sikh.

Dhanda is married with two children.

1996

Dhanda became a Labour Party organiser in West London, Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1996, then went on to be an assistant national organiser with Connect in 1998 where he remained until he was elected to Westminster.

1998

He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Hillingdon in 1998 and served on the council until 2002.

1999

He has been a member of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) since 1999.

He speaks Punjabi and French, in addition to English.

As a member of Labour's list for the 1999 European Parliament election, he became the country's youngest European Parliamentary candidate, aged 27.

2001

He was selected to contest the House of Commons constituency of Gloucester at the 2001 general election - the seat Labour required for a parliamentary majority of 1 - following the decision of Tess Kingham to stand down.

He made his maiden speech in the Commons on 27 June 2001, in which he made reference to the local newspaper's article stating (upon his selection by the Labour Party) that "the people of Gloucester had not reached a sufficiently advanced state of consciousness to accept a 'foreigner' as the local MP".

2003

In parliament, Dhanda became a member of the Science and Technology Select committee from his election until 2003.

He helped set up an all-party group on Telecommunications, of which he was Secretary.

In November 2003, Dhanda was asked by the Prime Minister Tony Blair to second the Loyal Address to the Monarch from the Houses of Commons.

2004

In December 2004, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Schools Stephen Twigg.

2005

Dhanda retained his seat in 2005 with an increased majority of 4,280 votes.

After the election, Dhanda was appointed to the post of Assistant Government Whip.

2006

In May 2006, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families in the Department for Education and Skills.

In this post, he implemented the Green Paper 'Care Matters', introducing radical new measures of support for 30,000 children in the care system.

2007

On 28 June 2007, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with responsibility for the fire and rescue service, community cohesion and planning.

2008

He was replaced by Sadiq Khan on 6 Oct 2008.

2009

In 2009, he fought a campaign to be Speaker of the House of Commons, obtaining 4.4% of the votes in the first ballot.

At the speaker's conference in October 2009, Dhanda criticised the way that all 23 of Gordon Brown's cabinet were White, whereas Tony Blair's last cabinet had two "ethnic minority" cabinet ministers.

Brown pointed out that he had a Black Attorney General (Baroness Scotland) and an Asian Minister of State for Transport (Sadiq Khan) who sat around the Cabinet table (though only when their ministerial responsibilities are on the agenda).

2010

At the 2010 general election, Dhanda lost his seat to Richard Graham of the Conservative Party.

The Telegraph (Calcutta) reported that in December 2010, Dhanda decided to retire from politics, moving from Gloucester to London.

After the 2010 general election, he became a non-executive director of Hanover Housing Association - an association specialising in housing and support for the elderly and as Parliamentary and Campaigns Officer for the Prospect Trade Union.

Since 2010, Dhanda has run for selection in multiple Labour safe and target seats, including Brent Central (UK Parliament constituency) in 2013, Aberavon in 2014, Ealing North in 2019 and Wycombe in 2022.

2014

In 2014, he commissioned research which was published in The Guardian about the lack of representation of BME communities in the Houses of Parliament.

2015

He did not seek election at the 2015 general election.

In 2015, Dhanda published his political memoirs, My Political Race, An Outsider's Journey to the Heart of British Politics.

2017

Dhanda became Executive Director at Back Heathrow from June 2017, a campaign seeking to highlight the benefits of the Heathrow Airport Expansion.

In 2017 Dhanda became the first non-executive Chair of the Allied Health Professionals Federation, the country's third largest staff representative organisation in the NHS.

He served as a non-executive director of the Milton Keynes University Foundation Trust Hospital, where he chaired the Trust charity, helping to raise £10 million to build its cancer centre.

He is also a non-executive director of the Longhurst Group, a housing association that builds social housing and provides social care on a not-for-profit basis.