predecessor successor children birth_place nationality party office primeminister birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
angela eagle james plaskitt ed balls peter pike sarah mccarthy-fry helen goodman ian pearson gordon birtwistle 1 son , 1 daughter aylesbury , buckinghamshire , england british labour exchequer for work and pensions economic secretary to the treasury member secretary of parliament for burnley to the treasury parliamentary under-secretary of state gordon brown gordon brown gordon brown 18 march 1971 9 6 may 2005 june 2009 5 october 2008 29 june 2007 peter j colley kitty ussher at election count in burnley 2009.jpg kitty ussher
 17 12 april 2010 june 2009 9 june 2009 5 october 2008 kitty ussher balliol london college , oxford , birkbeck , university of
kitty ussher

katharine anne ussher -lrb- born 18 march 1971 -rrb- is a british economist and former labour party politician who is now managing director of tooley street research .
she is also a member of the financial services consumer panel , chief economic adviser for portland , a member of thecityuk 's independent economists ' panel and has associate arrangements with a number of london-based think-tanks .
after training as an economist , she was elected member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- for burnley from 2005 until 2010 , succeeding peter pike .
she served as a minister in gordon brown 's government from 2007 -- 09 , mainly at the treasury but also at the department for work and pensions .
she did not stand in the 2010 election citing the desire for a more normal family life while her children were young .
