Bill Rammell
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Rt. Hon. Bill Rammell, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Bill Rammell was elected Member of Parliament for Harlow in 1997. He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell in June 2001, and promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office in October 2002.

Bill Rammell also served on the Education and Employment Committee in 2000 and was also a member of a Select Committee on European Scrutiny in 2001. Before entering Parliament, he was the general manager of the University of London Union, Head of Youth Services for Basildon Council and worked for the National Union of Students and British Rail. He was a member of Harlow District Council from 1985 to 1997. He was President of Cardiff University Students Union in 1982/83. Bill Rammell is married with two children who are educated in local secondary schools.

He was appointed Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in October 2008.

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We Do Care About Human Rights in Syria

Posted April 14, 2009 | 17:37:03 (EST)

In his article on the case of Maryam Kallis, a British citizen being held in Syria, James Denselow says that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's "failure to condemn" the arrest of Maryam Kallis suggests it sees human rights as negotiable, and that our reaction to her detention was...

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