Geoffrey Robinson
MP
Paymaster General
In office
2 May 1997 – 23 December 1998
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Michael Bates
Succeeded by Dawn Primarolo
Member of Parliament
for Coventry North West
Assumed office
4 March 1976
Preceded by Maurice Edelman
Majority 8,580 (17.2%)
Personal details
Born (1938-05-25) 25 May 1938 (age 86)
Website Parliamentary site


Geoffrey Robinson (born 25 May 1938) has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North West since 1976. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to December 1998.

Political career

Robinson has been a member of Parliament for Coventry North West, a safe Labour Party seat, since a by-election on 4 March 1976 caused by the death of MP Maurice Edelman. His Conservative opponent in the 1987 election was the novelist Jim Powell. During the 1980s with Labour in opposition he held frontbench positions, speaking for the party on trade and industry and on science. He was Paymaster General in Tony Blair's government from May 1997 to December 1998.