• Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party Women's Committee    
  (June 2005)

 

• Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Women,
  Rt Hon Tessa Jowell (June 2005 - May 2006)

 

• Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for

  Culture, Media and Sport, Rt Hon Tessa Jowell
  (May 2006 - June 2007)

 

• Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Women,

  Rt Hon Ruth Kelly (May 2006)

 

• Minister for the East of England
  (June 2007 - May 2010)

 

• Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for
  Work and Pensions (June 2007 - October 2008)

 

• Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Equality
  (October 2007 - October 2008)

 

• Minister for Culture, Tourism and the Creative Industries
  (October 2008 - September 2009)

 

• Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department
  for Communities and Local Government
  (September 2009 - May 2010)