Background
He is the son of Doug Hoyle, a former Labour Member of Parliament for Warrington N.
He is the son of Doug Hoyle, a former Labour Member of Parliament for Warrington N.
He was elected as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in a secret ballot on 8 June 2010. He is President of the All-Party British Gibraltar Group in Parliament and Chairman of the All Party British Virgin Islands Group. Hoyle went to Anderton County Primary School, and the independent Lord"s College, Bolton.
Hoyle was the first Labour politician to represent Chorley at Westminster in 18 years.
Prior to Parliament, he was a Councillor on Chorley Borough Council from 1980 to 1998. Hoyle also held the post of Deputy Leader from 1994 to 1997 and finished his time of the Council as Mayor from 1997 to 1998.
Hoyle was one of the 1997 Labour intake of MPs winning a majority of 7,625. Hoyle was elected Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker on 8 June 2010, the first time this appointment had been made by ballot of MPs rather than by nomination of the Leader of the House.
He was appointed to the Privy Council in January 2013.
In the days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, Mr Hoyle asked for a new national children"s hospital to be built as a memorial to her. A few days later Mr Hoyle wrote to airport operator Bachelor of Applied Arts, operators of London Heathrow airport, urging them to change the airport’s name to Diana, Princess of Wales Airport. Neither proposal was carried out.
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He later served as a member of the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee from 1998 to 2010.