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Joan Mary Ruddock (born 28 December 1943, Pontypool as Joan Mary Anthony), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Lewisham Deptford and was first elected in 1987. She is a feminist and is the partner of Frank Doran, the Labour MP for Aberdeen North.
Born in Wales, she was educated at Pontypool Girls grammar school and at Imperial College London. Prior to her election to Parliament, Joan Ruddock was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a UK pressure group active during the 1980s; she resigned in 1985. Under the Blair administration, she served briefly as Minister for Women.
She returned to government when Gordon Brown appointed her Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Defra in June 2007 with responsibility for biodiversity, climate change adaptation, waste and domestic forestry.
She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
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