Helen Goodman

Helen Goodman
Official portrait, 2017
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
In office 9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Kitty Ussher
Succeeded by	Maria Miller
Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
In office 28 June 2007 – 5 October 2008
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Leader	Harriet Harman
Preceded by	Paddy Tipping
Succeeded by	Chris Bryant
Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland
In office 5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by	Derek Foster
Succeeded by	Dehenna Davison
Shadow portfolios
2010–2011	Shadow Minister for Prisons
2011–2014	Shadow Minister for Culture and Media
2014–2015	Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform
2017–2019	Shadow Minister for Americas, Far East and Overseas Territories
Personal details
Born	Helen Catherine Goodman (1958-01-02) 2 January 1958 (age 66) Nottingham, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Charles Seaford
Children	2
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford

Helen Catherine Goodman (born 2 January 1958) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from 2007 to 2008 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2009 to 2010. She also served in government as an Assistant Whip from 2008 to 2009.

Goodman was a Shadow Minister for Justice from 2010 to 2011, Shadow Minister for Culture and Media from 2011 to 2014 and Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform from 2014 to 2015. She was briefly a Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions in 2010, and returned to the front bench as a Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2017 to 2019.