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Gareth Thomas
Shadow minister for civil society , Labour Party from October 2011
Gareth Thomas MP has been the shadow minister for civil society since October 2011.
He has been the Labour MP for Harrow West since the 1997 general election. He also holds the position of chair of the Co-operative Party and is a member of the Fabian Society.
In 1999 he became parliamentary private secretary to Charles Clarke, minister of state at the Home Office. He stayed with him on his promotion to the Cabinet as party chairman in 2001 and as education secretary in 2002.
In 2003 he became parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for International Development. Under Gordon Brown he combined this with being a junior minister for trade policy, at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. He was promoted to minister of state rank with the same dual brief in October 2008.
He has an economics degree from Aberystwyth University, then studied history at Kings College before qualifying as a teacher at Greenwich University.
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Gareth Thomas won some senior charity sector support yesterday after criticising coalition ministers for not representing or listening to sector concerns well enough.
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Lord Wallace, the Cabinet Office spokesman in the House of Lords, sought to justify the tax relief cap yesterday by claiming that not all charities use their funds in a “public-spirited” manner, making the proposed cap necessary.
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The Challenge Network, a charity founded by the government's former Big Society adviser Lord Nat Wei, received a grant from the Cabinet Office in the last financial year that was seven times bigger than its income in 2010.
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