Dawn Primarolo

The Right Honourable The Baroness Primarolo DBE PC
Official portrait, 2018
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Second Deputy Chair of Ways and Means
In office 9 June 2010 – 8 May 2015
Speaker	John Bercow
Preceded by	Michael Lord
Succeeded by	Natascha Engel
Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Beverley Hughes
Succeeded by	Sarah Teather
Minister of State for Public Health
In office 29 June 2007 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Caroline Flint
Succeeded by	Gillian Merron
Paymaster General
In office 4 January 1999 – 28 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Geoffrey Robinson
Succeeded by	Tessa Jowell
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 2 May 1997 – 4 January 1999
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Michael Jack
Succeeded by	Barbara Roche
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Incumbent Assumed office 8 December 2015 Life Peerage Member of Parliament for Bristol South In office 11 June 1987 – 30 March 2015 Preceded by Michael Cocks Succeeded by Karin Smyth
Personal details
Born	(1954-05-02) 2 May 1954 (age 70) London, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Ian Ducat
Alma mater	Bristol Polytechnic University of Bristol (did not graduate)

Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo, DBE, PC (born 2 May 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015, when she stood down.^[1] She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service.^[2][3] She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.^[4]