Anne Snelgrove

Anne Snelgrove
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 8 June 2009 – 6 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Angela Smith
Succeeded by	Desmond Swayne
Member of Parliament for South Swindon
In office 5 May 2005 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Julia Drown
Succeeded by	Robert Buckland
Personal details
Born	(1957-08-07) 7 August 1957 Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Winchester

Anne Christine Snelgrove (born 7 August 1957) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South from 2005 to 2010; from June 2009 to May 2010, she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In the 2010 general election, she lost her constituency of Swindon South to Conservative MP Robert Buckland. She unsuccessfully contested the seat again for the Labour party at the 2015 general election.

She was educated at Ranelagh School in Bracknell, the University of Winchester and City University, London, and previously stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Bracknell in 1997. She is a member of the Co-operative Party, Amicus and Amnesty International. Previously she worked in education, as a teacher for eight years and Local Education Authority Adviser for seven years.

She led the campaign to help victims of the collapse of Farepak, the hamper company that was based in her constituency.

She launched the Geared for Giving campaign in May 2008 with Duncan Bannatyne OBE.

She became an Arthritis Research UK Arthritis Champion in 2015.

External links

• TheyWorkForYou.com - Anne Snelgrove MP