Gerry Malone

Peter Gerald "Gerry" Malone (born 21 July 1950) is a British Conservative politician who was an MP from 1983–87 and 1992–97.

Born in Glasgow, Malone was educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow.

Early career

Glasgow candidacies

He was an unsuccessful Conservative candidate in the February 1974 general election in the Glasgow Provan constituency, where he was defeated by Labour's Hugh Brown. He made other unsuccessful attempts to be elected to parliament at Glasgow Pollok in October 1974, and in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in 1982 where he lost the traditionally Conservative seat to Roy Jenkins of the SDP.

MP for Aberdeen South

He was then elected as MP for Aberdeen South in 1983 as a member of the Thatcher government, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 general election.^[1][2]

Re-entering Parliament

Seat of Winchester

He re-entered parliament in 1992, representing the "safe" Conservative seat of Winchester. He was appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1994, when Virginia Bottomley was the Secretary of State.

1997 contested seat of Winchester

Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the 1997 general election by two votes, to the Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Oaten.^[3] Malone challenged the result in the high court, and it was declared void, causing a by-election. Malone trailed Oaten by 21,566 votes in the resulting by-election.^[4]

Positions within commercial enterprises

Regent-GM

Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, one of Britain's biggest suppliers of generic drugs to the National Health Service (NHS) and a subsidiary of Nadhmi Auchi's General Mediterranean Holding.^[5]

Ultrasis

Currently, Malone is a Non Executive Chairman of Ultrasis,^[6] which specialises in computerised cognitive behavioural therapy software.

References

1. David Butler, Andrew Adonis, and Tony Travers, Failure in British Government: The politics of the poll tax. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-827875-7. Pages 110 and 144.
2. Andrew Neil, Full Disclosure. Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 978-0-333-64682-3. Pages 159, 230, and 247.
3. "Election petitions". BBC News. 20 August 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
4. "Gerry Malone: Electoral history and profile". The Guardian (London).
5. Bowers, Simon (6 April 2006). "Five companies charged in NHS price fixing row". The Guardian (London).
6. "Directors". Ultrasis. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Gerry Malone