The Lord Austin of Dudley | |
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 Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
| In office 9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Iain Wright |
| Succeeded by | Bob Neill |
| Minister for the West Midlands | |
| In office 6 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Liam Byrne |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Assistant Government Whip | |
| In office 5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Chief Whip | Nick Brown |
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | |
| In office 27 June 2007 – 4 October 2008 Serving with Angela Smith | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Keith Hill |
| Succeeded by | Jon Trickett |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 14 September 2020 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Dudley North | |
| In office 5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Ross Cranston |
| Succeeded by | Marco Longhi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ian Christopher Austin 6 March 1965 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England |
| Political party | Non-affiliated (since 2019) |
| Other political affiliations | Labour (1983–2019) |
| Alma mater | University of Essex |
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| Website | parliament..ian-austin |
Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent, and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.