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{{Infobox MP
|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name = Caroline Flint
|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}
|image = Official portrait of Caroline Flint crop 2.jpg
|caption = Flint in 2017
|office = Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
|leader = [[Edward Miliband]]<br>[[Harriet Harman]] {{small|(Acting)}}
|term_start = 7 October 2011
|term_end = 14 September 2015
|predecessor = Meg Hillier
|successor = [[Lisa Nandy]]
|office1 = Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
|leader1 = [[Edward Miliband]]
|term_start1 = 8 October 2010
|term_end1 = 7 October 2011
|predecessor1 = John Denham
|successor1 = [[Hilary Benn]]
|office2 = Minister of State for Europe
|primeminister2 = Gordon Brown
|term_start2 = 3 October 2008
|term_end2 = 5 June 2009
|predecessor2 = Jim Murphy
|successor2 = Glenys Kinnock
|office3 = Minister of State for Housing and Planning
|primeminister3 = Gordon Brown
|term_start3 = 24 January 2008
|term_end3 = 3 October 2008
|predecessor3 = [[Yvette Cooper]]
|successor3 = [[Margaret Beckett]]
|office4 = Minister of State for Employment
|primeminister4 = Gordon Brown
|term_start4 = 28 June 2007
|term_end4 = 24 January 2008
|predecessor4 = Jim Murphy
|successor4 = [[Stephen Timms]]
|office5 = Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber
|primeminister5 = Gordon Brown
|term_start5 = 28 June 2007
|term_end5 = 24 January 2008
|predecessor5 = Position established
|successor5 = [[Rosie Winterton]]
|office6 = Minister of State for Public Health
|primeminister6 = Tony Blair
|term_start6 = 5 May 2005
|term_end6 = 28 June 2007
|predecessor6 = Melanie Johnson
|successor6 = Dawn Primarolo
|office7 = Member of Parliament<br>for [[Don Valley]]
|term_start7 = 1 May 1997
|term_end7 =
|predecessor7 = Martin Redmond
|successor7 =
|majority7 = 5,169 (11.2%)
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|9|20|df=y}}
|birth_place =
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party =
|spouse =
|alma_mater =
|website = {{url|carolineflint.org |Official website}}
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'''Caroline Louise Flint''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MP}} (born 20 September 1961) has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for [[Don Valley]] since 1997. She served in the Government as the Minister for Public Health from 2005 to 2007, the 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.
In 2010, Edward 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.
==Parliamentary career==
In 1999, Flint became Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Peter Hain while he was Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before in 2002 becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Reid, while he was Leader of the House of Commons and Minister without portfolio.
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 with responsibility for Public Health first as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and from May 2006 as Minister of State in the same role.
In 29 June 2007 Flint moved to the Department for Work and Pensions where she served as the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform. Flint was also appointed to the new position of Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber.
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.
She was moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the October 2008 reshuffle, to become the Minister for Europe.
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