page_title: Natascha Engel
section_title: Youth
hierarchical_section_title: Natascha Engel / Parliamentary career / Youth
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Natascha Engel, deputato labourista britannico.
context_page_description: Natascha Engel is a British former politician. She served as Labour Party Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire from 2005 until her defeat in the 2017 general election.
  Engel has had extensive involvement in the trade union movement and was Second Deputy Chair of Ways and Means. For her work in Parliament she was awarded Parliamentarian of the Year in 2013 by the Political Studies Association. She was Commissioner for Shale Gas from October 2018 until resigning in April 2019.
context_section_description: Engel represents the Labour Party on the Board of Trustees of the UK Youth Parliament and has worked to encourage young people to participate in democracy. With her local council she set up a 'Question Time' event for local pupils to question a panel including then-cabinet member Geoff Hoon and the leader of the council. In December 2007, she was a sponsor of a Private member's bill introduced by Julie Morgan which would have reduced the voting age to 16. Engel became chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs in 2008. In a Fabian Society survey of some Labour MPs in Autumn 2007, Engel's suggestion for the next Labour general election manifesto was for sex and relationship education to be compulsory in all schools and taught by a professional.
  At the ePolitix Charity Champion awards in November 2007, Engel was named "Children and Youth Champion" for her work. At the 2007–08 annual general meeting of the British Youth Council, she was chosen as an Honorary President of the council.
caption: Engel in 2008
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