About Julie

Julie Morgan was elected as Member of Parliament for Cardiff North on 1 May 1997 as part of the historic landslide that swept the Conservative Party from office.

At the time of her election, Julie was the first woman Member of Parliament to represent a part of Cardiff. She was also one of our four Welsh Labour MPs who were women. Julie originally contested the seat in 1991. She was returned at the General Elections in 2001 and 2005.

Julie was born in Cardiff on 2 November 1944. She was educated at Dinas Powys Primary School and Howell's School in Llandaff. She studied at King's College, London, where she took her BA in English in 1965.

Julie also studied at Manchester University, and holds a postgraduate diploma in Social Administration (CQSW) from Cardiff University. Before she became an MP, Julie was a social worker with Barry Social Services, and an Assistant Director of Barnardo's. She sat on South Glamorgan Council between 1985 and 1997 and was a Cardiff Councillor from 1995.

Julie made her maiden speech in Parliament on 22 May 1997 in the debate on the Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill, when she said:

"We no longer want the people of Wales to have to put up with a standard of living that is 17% below the British average. We no longer want the incidence of heart disease and breast cancer to be greater in Wales than in the rest of Britain. We no longer want the poverty of aspiration that affects so many people in Wales."

Julie is a member of the Constitutional Affairs and Public Administration Select Committees, is the chair of the Welsh Group of Labour MPs, the hon. Treasurer of the Parliamentary Labour Party's Women's Group and is the secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Human Rights. She is chair of the APPG Children in Wales, working with children's voluntary groups across Wales, and also chairs the APPG Sex Equality (working with the Equal Opportunities Commission), the APPG Global TB and the Family Courts Group.

She is a member of the Transport and General Workers Union and was a founder member of the Welsh Refugee Council. She was also a founder member of the Women's Arts Association and is the chair of Cardiff's Domestic Violence Forum.

Julie was unanimously re-selected as the Labour Party's candidate for Cardiff North in 2005 and is currently serving her third term as an MP.

Comments

[Alison Myers-Ward]

Tax Credits Casualties are a user group campaigning for an amnesty on all non-fault tax credit overpayments. Sadly, to date only a small minority of system-caused overpayments have been written off and properly accepted as the Tax Credit Office’s responsibility (Public Accounts Committee, 23rd October 2006). We welcome Julie Morgan's Early Day Motion 545 (19th December 2006), which recognises the European Court of Human Rights’ view that a judge and jury approach to appeals is unjust, and asks for an independent right of appeal to be urgently introduced for people disputing recovery, and hope it will receive cross-party support.

Our group is currently seeking funding for a Tax Credit Casualties Conference, exploring legal action and preparing an Emergency Motion for consideration by a major union, as well as supporting each other with appeals, complaints and challenges. Please contact us for information, support or involvement with our ongoing campaign.

Our National Co-ordinator is: Paula Dean , 41 Cottenham Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 1LE. Tel: 01709 836004

Advice, support and much more can be accessed on our website: http://www.taxcreditoverpayment.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Supporters can sign our online petition on: http://www.petitiononline.com/tco1/

Alison Myers-Ward

Alison Myers-Ward, a Tax Credit Casualty.

[Julie]

Hi Alison - no, I was not aware of the campaign, but would be very interested to learn more. If you have any literature please feel free to send it to my constituency office or e-mail it to me direct.

[Richard Corbett MEP]

Dear Julie,

I thought you would like to know I have added a link to your blog on my
blog.

I would be grateful if you could put a reciprocal link on your blog.

You can read my blog at www.richardcorbett.org.uk/blog/

Thanks and best wishes

Richard