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Sadiq Khan MP

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

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Responsibilities

• Cohesion (including joint chair of the Migration Impacts Forum)
• Preventing Violent Extremism - winning hearts and minds
• Fire and Rescue Service
• Support on local government policy and finance (including local government pensions)
• Sponsor Minister for the Valuation Tribunal Service
• Planning Casework cases and Regional Spatial Strategies in the South East, Yorkshire & Humber, Eastern and East Midlands regions

Biography

Sadiq Khan was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government on 5 October 2008.

In July 2007, the Prime Minister appointed Sadiq a Minister in the Government Whip's Office where he had special responsibility for managing Ministry of Justice legislation.

Previously he was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Honourable Jack Straw MP, who was then Leader of the House of Commons.

Sadiq was a member of the prestigious Public Accounts Select Committee between 2005 and 2007.

Sadiq was a Human Rights solicitor before entering parliament. He also co-founded a Human Rights firm and was chair of Liberty (NCCL) for many years. He was also a visiting lecturer at University of North London and London Metropolitan University, and is a former governor of South Thames FE College.

Sadiq is a Governor of 2 primary schools including the one he attended as a child (since 1993) and the country's first purpose built Islamic ethos primary school (since 2004).

Sadiq was a Councillor for Tooting ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 until 2006 and was made an honorary Alderman in 2006.

Sadiq was born in St George's Hospital in Tooting in 1970.

Sadiq is an avid supporter of Liverpool Football Club and Surrey County Cricket Club respectively.

Mr Khan is married and has two daughters.