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Albert Owen
Albert Owen; MP
Member of Parliament ; for Ynys Môn
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Ieuan Wyn Jones
Majority	5,259 (14.1%)
Personal details
Born	10 August 1959 (age 64)

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Albert Owen (born 10 August 1959) is a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn. He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and has retained the seat at the four subsequent general elections. He is a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, having also served on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and the International Development Committee. He is also a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairs and is vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on cancer

In Parliament

Albert has rebelled against the Labour Party's political whip on certain occasions including notably:

he voted against the government's Higher Education Funding Bill introducing "top up fees" – 27 January 2004
he voted against the House of Lords amendment on foundation hospitals – 19 November 2003
he voted for an anti-war amendment during the Iraq crisis debate – 18 March 2003

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-'''Albert Owen''' (born 10 August 1959) is a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician and [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency)|Ynys Môn]]. He took the seat in the [[United Kingdom general election, 2001|2001 election]] from [[Plaid Cymru]] with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and has retained the seat at the four subsequent general elections. He is a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, having also served on the [[Welsh Affairs Select Committee]]<ref name=owen/> and the [[International Development Committee]]. He is also a member of the Speaker's [[Panel of Chairs]] and is vice-chair of the [[all-party parliamentary group]] on cancer <ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/memi297.htm UK Parliament – Register of All Party Groups]</ref>
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+'''Albert Owen''' (born 10 August 1959) is a Member of Parliament (MP) for [[Ynys Môn]]. He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and has retained the seat at the four subsequent general elections. He is a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, having also served on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and the International Development Committee. He is also a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairs and is vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on cancer
-==Early life==
-Like most of his hometown [[Holyhead]], including the Labour [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] [[Glenys Kinnock]], he attended the [[Holyhead High School|Holyhead County Comprehensive School]].<ref name=owen>[http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/parliament/0,,-6520,00.html Albert Owen biography], Guardian, accessed 12 August 2008</ref> He left when he was sixteen for a career in the [[Merchant Navy]], and was a seaman until 1992. In 1995, he became an advisor in the [[Citizens Advice Bureau]], specialising in welfare rights, and from 1997 to 2001 he managed the J. E. O'Toole Centre in Holyhead – a centre dedicated to the welfare, education and leisure of unemployed workers in Holyhead. In 1999, he unsuccessfully stood for the Labour party in the [[Welsh Assembly]] elections. From the [[University of York]] he gained a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/ Politics] in 1997.
 ==In Parliament==
 Albert has rebelled against the Labour Party's political whip on certain occasions including notably:
-* he voted '''against''' the government's [[Higher Education Funding Bill]] introducing "top up fees" – 27 January 2004
+* he voted '''against''' the government's Higher Education Funding Bill introducing "top up fees" – 27 January 2004
-* he voted '''against''' the [[House of Lords]] amendment on [[foundation hospital]]s – 19 November 2003
+* he voted '''against''' the House of Lords amendment on foundation hospitals – 19 November 2003
-* he voted '''for''' an [[anti-war]] amendment during the [[Iraq]] crisis debate – 18 March 2003 – though he was subsequently absent for a vote on requiring Security Council support for any further action
+* he voted '''for''' an anti-war amendment during the Iraq crisis debate – 18 March 2003

Albert Owen MP


Member of Parliament for Ynys Môn
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Ieuan Wyn Jones
Majority	5,259 (14.1%)

Personal details
Born	(1959-08-10) 10 August 1959 (age 64)