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Mike O'Brien MP

Mike O'Brien
Minister of State (also Minister at the DTI)

Responsibility for: Trade and trade policy; South East Asia; South Asia and Afghanistan; North America; Outreach. Responsibility for trade policy and ECGD at the DTI. Commons cover: Personnel.

Mike O’Brien MP was appointed Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 13 June 2003. From June 2002 Mr O’Brien was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with responsibility for the Middle East. He is a former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office and the Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire.

He was first elected to Parliament in 1992 and was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee and the Treasury Select Committee before joining the Labour Front Bench in 1995 as the Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs.

In 1993 the Police Federation asked him to be their Parliamentary Adviser – the first Labour adviser in twenty years. He gave up the role when Tony Blair appointed him to the Front Bench.

Mike O’Brien served as Labour Spokesman on the City from 1996-1997 and was appointed as a Minister at the Home Office after the General Election in May 1997.

He worked as a Minister on the Crime and Disorder Act, the Immigration and Asylum Act, the Human Rights Act, the Representation of the People Act 1999, the Political Parties and Referendum Bill and the Race Relations Amendment Bill. He also dealt with race equality, constitutional reform, animal issues (including fox hunting), gambling and alcohol licensing reform and the Fire Service.

Mr O'Brien was Parliamentary adviser to the Staff Association of Chief Police Officers (CPOSA) and a member of the Appeals Committee of the Police Dependents’ Trust, a charity which assists the families of police officers who have died on duty.

Mike O’Brien is married with two daughters.
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