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|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name = Caroline Flint
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|image = Official portrait of Caroline Flint crop 2.jpg
|caption = Flint in 2017
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|term_start = 7 October 2011
|term_end = 14 September 2015
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|successor = [[Lisa Nandy]]
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|successor1 = [[Hilary Benn]]
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'''Caroline Louise Flint''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MP}} (born 20 September 1961) is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who has been the [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Don Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Don Valley]] since [[United Kingdom general election, 1997|1997]]. She served in the [[UK Government|Government]] as the [[Department of Health (United Kingdom)|Minister for Public Health]] from 2005 to 2007, the [[Department for Work and Pensions|Minister for Employment]] from 2007 to 2008, the [[Minister for Housing and Planning]] in 2008, and finally as the [[Minister for Europe]] from 2008 to 2009, when she resigned citing disagreement with the leadership style of [[Gordon Brown]].▼
In 2010, she was elected to the [[Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election, 2010|Shadow Cabinet]] and [[Ed Miliband]] appointed her [[Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government]]. From 2011 to 2015, she was [[Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change]].▼
▲'''Caroline Louise Flint''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MP}} (born 20 September 1961)
▲In 2010,
==Parliamentary career==
In 1999, Flint became
Initially joining the government in June 2003 as
▲In 1999, Flint became [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] (PPS) to [[Peter Hain]] while he was [[Minister of State]] at the [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]] and the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] before in 2002 becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to [[John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan|Dr John Reid]], while he was [[Leader of the House of Commons]] and [[Minister without portfolio]].<ref name="dlprofile"/>
In
On 24 January 2008, Flint was promoted to Minister of State for Housing and Planning, and as a result would now attend Cabinet meetings. She was also appointed a member of the Privy Council and she relinquished her role as regional minister.
▲Initially joining the government in June 2003 as [[Parliamentary Under Secretary of State]] at the [[Home Office]], Flint was moved in May 2005 to the [[Department of Health (United Kingdom)|Department of Health]], with responsibility for [[Public Health]] first as [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State]] and from May 2006 as [[Minister of State]] in the same role.<ref name="dlprofile"/>
She was moved to the
▲In the [[Cabinet reshuffle]] of 29 June 2007 Caroline Flint moved to the [[Department for Work and Pensions]] where she served as the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform.<ref name="dlprofile"/> Flint was also appointed to the new position of Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber.<ref name="dlprofile"/>
▲</ref>
▲She was moved to the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] in the October 2008 reshuffle, to become the [[Minister for Europe]].<ref name="guardianprofile"/>
▲</ref>
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