Joan Walley MP
Joan Walley has been MP for Stoke on Trent North since 1987, following an apprenticeship on Lambeth Council and as a local government officer on Swansea and Wandsworth Councils. She was shadow minister for Environmental Protection and Development and Transport until 1995, when she joined the Trade & Industry Select Committee. She has been the senior Labour member of the Environmental Audit Select Committee since 1997, and recently chaired a sub-committee inquiry into Education for Sustainable Development.
She has been Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Regeneration Group since 2001 and is Chair of the All Party Lighting Group.