About: Frank McAveety   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/CvDq3ltXYy7NP23d6mS5sw==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Frank McAveety (born 27 July 1962) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston. He was educated at All Saints Secondary School, Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, and at St. Andrew's College of Education in Glasgow. Before his election to the Scottish Parliament, he taught English at St Gregory's RC school (Cranhill) in Glasgow and St Brendan's RC High School, Linwood, Renfrewshire. He was a member of Glasgow District Council from 1988 until 1996, then a member and Leader (from 1997) of Glasgow City Council until 1999.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Frank McAveety
rdfs:comment
  • Frank McAveety (born 27 July 1962) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston. He was educated at All Saints Secondary School, Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, and at St. Andrew's College of Education in Glasgow. Before his election to the Scottish Parliament, he taught English at St Gregory's RC school (Cranhill) in Glasgow and St Brendan's RC High School, Linwood, Renfrewshire. He was a member of Glasgow District Council from 1988 until 1996, then a member and Leader (from 1997) of Glasgow City Council until 1999.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:coop/proper...iPageUsesTemplate
term start
  • 1999-05-06(xsd:date)
Majority
  • 2881(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1962-06-27(xsd:date)
constituency MP
Name
  • Frank McAveety
ImageSize
  • 150(xsd:integer)
Alma mater
Party
Title
Start
  • 1999(xsd:integer)
Before
Years
  • 1999(xsd:integer)
  • 2002(xsd:integer)
  • 2003(xsd:integer)
After
parliament
  • Scottish
honorific-suffix
titlestyle
  • style="background:#eee;
Predecessor
  • new constituency
abstract
  • Frank McAveety (born 27 July 1962) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston. He was educated at All Saints Secondary School, Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, and at St. Andrew's College of Education in Glasgow. Before his election to the Scottish Parliament, he taught English at St Gregory's RC school (Cranhill) in Glasgow and St Brendan's RC High School, Linwood, Renfrewshire. He was a member of Glasgow District Council from 1988 until 1996, then a member and Leader (from 1997) of Glasgow City Council until 1999. He was Deputy Minister for Local Government in the Scottish Executive from 1999 to 2000. He returned to office as Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in May 2002. He was appointed Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport following the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003. Frank was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament May 3 2007. He serves as convener of the Public Petitions Committee and is the Labour Party's spokesperson on sport. He is a Celtic supporter from childhood, and is known for his knowledge of music, including a massive collection of LPs, cassettes, and CDs. In April 2005, the Scotsman newspaper dubbed him the "grand-daddy of Parliamentary pop", in reference to his folksy Chamber speech in support of a bill recognising Franz Ferdinand for their contribution to Scottish popular music and culture.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software