Linda Perham (born 29 June 1947) is a Labour politician in the

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Career

Perham was a councillor in the

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, representing the ward of Hainault and was mayor of the borough in 1994–95. She was elected the Member of Parliament for

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in 1997, when she defeated her

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predecessor

Vivian Bendall Vivian Walter Hough Bendall (born 14 December 1938) is a British Conservative politician and estate agent. After gaining Ilford North at the 1978 by-election he served as the constituency's Member of Parliament until his defeat in 1997. Bendal ...

. During her time in Parliament, she sat on various committees including the Trade and Industry and International Development select committees from 1998. She lost her seat in the 2005 general election to Conservative Lee Scott. By profession, she was a librarian, working latterly at Epping Forest College in

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. She was elected an honorary fellow of the

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in 2003 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). After leaving Parliament, she held a number of non-executive director and trustee positions, including with the

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, East Thames Group, TrustMark, the London Voluntary Service Council, Headway West London, the Friends of the

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, and the European Care Group. She is now Chair of the Thames Water Trust Fund, Director/Trustee, Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure, Member of the Court,

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, President,

Hainault Forest Hainault Forest was a large wooded area in the English counties of Essex and Greater London which was mostly destroyed after 1851. Popular outrage at the destruction of most of the forest was an important catalyst for the creation of the modern ...

Community Association and a Justice of the Peace.

References

External links

BBC News MP profile

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