Background
He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer, son of former Member of Parliament John Gummer.
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Chris Mole
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Mole attended Dulwich College.
Career
He gained a degree in Electronics from the University of Kent and moved to Ipswich in 1981 to work at the British Telecom Laboratories at Martlesham Heath. During that time he served as Branch Secretary of the Research Branch of the white collar British Telecom-only union then called the STE. lieutenant is now a cross industry union called Connect. He was first elected to Suffolk County Council in 1985 and represented a central Ipswich division for 18 years.
He was a governor of Handford Hall Primary School, Ipswich.
He steered his Private Member"s Bill onto the Statute Book where it became the Legal Deposit Libraries Acting 2003, extending the concept of legal deposit to electronic records. The Bill was strongly promoted by the British Library
Mole was appointed in June 2005 to the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Local Government Minister Philosophy Woolas.
He resigned from this position on 6 September 2006 after signing a letter calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down. When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Mole was recalled to a Parliamentary Private Secretary position, taking the post of Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Healey, the Minister of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government on 28 June 2007.
In October 2008 he was made an Assistant Whip in the Labour government and acted as Assistant Regional Minister with Barbara Follett, the Regional Minister for the East of England.
He became a minister for the first time in the June 2009 reshuffle when he was appointed to the Department for Transport as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.
Membership
53rd United Kingdom Parliament. 54th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Deputy Chair of EEDA, the regional development agency for the East of England, from 1998 and was Leader of Suffolk County Council from 1993, named Council of the Year 2001, until his election as Member of Parliament. In the 2001 parliament, Mole served as a member of the Select Committee that scrutinised the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deregulation and Regulatory Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.
From 16 January 2007 until 20 August 2008, Mole was a member of the Science and Technology Committee.
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Political Party
Labour Party