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Phil Hope MP

Phil Hope MP is Minister of State for Care Services at the Department of Health and Minister for the East Midlands.

Phil’s previous positions in central government include: Minister for the Third Sector,  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills, Private Secretary to former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

He was elected to Kettering Borough Council during the 1980s and Northamptonshire County Council between 1993 and 1997 where he chaired the Equal Opportunities Committee.

Formerly a teacher at Kettering School for Boys, Phil has also been a youth policy advisor to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Head of the Young Volunteer Resources Unit at the National Youth Bureau and a management consultant to not-for-profit organisations.

Phil was educated at Wandsworth Comprehensive School and St Luke's College, Exeter.