Chris Ruane

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Chris Ruane
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Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Minister for Wales
In office
3 July 2017 –6 November 2019

Ruane contested Clwyd North West in 1992.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Hain from 2003 until his resignation in March 2007 in protest against the decision to replace Trident. [3] In 2003, Ruane voted in favour of the Iraq War.

He lost his seat to Conservative James Davies in the 2015 General Election. However, he successfully stood for re-election in the Vale of Clwyd constituency in the 2017 election. [4] before losing it again.

Ruane was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum and supported a second referendum. [5] From 2017 until the 2019 General Election, Ruane served as Labour's Shadow Wales Minister. In his role, he regularly campaigned for the need for greater transparency around the Government's proposed replacement of European Union funding post-Brexit, on the basis that Wales had historically been a net recipient of funding.

As a Parliamentarian, Ruane tabled written parliamentary questions extensively and has regularly been one of the most prolific users of the procedure amongst Members of Parliament. He used written parliamentary questions to highlight the fall in the number of registered voters from 2001 onwards.

In 2013, he worked with Lord Layard and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre to establish mindfulness practice in the UK Parliament. Since then 260 UK parliamentarians and 460 members of their staff have received mindfulness training. In his period out of office, 2015–17, working with the Mindfulness Initiative (MI), he developed links with politicians and mindfulness advocates in 39 legislatures around the world and has helped to establish mindfulness practice in 13 of those legislatures. In 2018, he re-established the All Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics in conjunction with former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lord Gus O'Donnell and Lord Layard and has been a consistent campaigner for embedding wellbeing considerations in public policy formulation and decision making.

In 2019, he again lost his seat to Conservative James Davies in the General Election in December of that year.

Expenses

In October 2012, the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, blocked the release of data showing which MPs were renting their homes in London to other MPs for financial gain. However, a study of parliamentary records was published in The Daily Telegraph . [6] The study showed that 27 MPS, including Ruane [7] receive rental income from their homes in London while simultaneously claiming rental income from the taxpayer to live at another residence. Ruane owns a flat in London which he bought through the use of parliamentary expenses. Ruane claimed £1,906 a month for his London flat. He also owns a flat about three minutes' walk away. He said: "I have acted completely within the rules." [8]

Between January and June 2018, Ruane claimed £9,760. [9] making him the lowest claiming of MPs in the North Wales region.

Personal life

Ruane is married to Gill Roberts and has two children. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chris Ruane MP". UK Parliament.
  2. ↑ "Ruane, Christopher Shaun" . Who's Who . Vol. 2018 (February 2018 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 14 February 2018.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ "MP Ruane steps down over Trident". 15 March 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "General Election: Ex-Labour Clwyd MPs bid for Commons return". BBC News. 28 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Read, Jonathon (27 March 2019). "How did my MP vote on a second referendum?". The New European.
  6. ↑ "Expenses scandal: 27 MPs let one home and claim for another". www.telegraph.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "North Wales News - Latest news, pictures, video - North Wales Live". www.dailypost.co.uk.
  8. ↑ Bryant, By Holly Watt, Claire Newell, Charles Young and Ben. "MPs use children to claim more expenses".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Leaver, Joel; Goodier, Michael (9 November 2018). "Guto Bebb is Wales' most expensive MP". North Wales Live.
  10. ↑ Commons, House of. "House of Commons - The Register of Members' Financial Interests - Part 2: Part 2".
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