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Name: Khalid Mahmood DOB: 13 July 1961( 46) First Elected: 2001 Constituency: Birmingham Perry Bar Party: Labour Place of Birth: Kashmir
Name: Virendra Sharma DOB: 1947( 60) First Elected: 2007 Constituency: Ealing Southall Party: Labour Place of Birth: India
Name: Shahid Malik DOB: 24 November 1967( 39) First Elected: 2005 Constituency: Dewsbury, West Yorkshire Ministerial Duties: Parliamentary Under- Secretary at the Department for International Development( DfID)( assumed post June 2007) First: British-born Muslim to serve as a Minister in the British Government Party: Labour Place of Birth: UK
Name: Mohammed Sarwar DOB: 18 August 1952( 54) First Elected: 1997 Constituency: Glasgow Central First: UK Muslim Member of Parliament( MP) Party: Labour Place of Birth: Pakistan
Name: Patricia Scotland QC, Baroness Scotland of Asthal DOB: 19 August 1955( 51) Ministerial Post: Attorney General for England and Wales First Appointed: June 2007 First: Woman to hold this post. Also 1 st black woman QC in UK Party: Labour Place of Birth: Dominica
Arrived in UK: 1958
Name: Marsha Singh DOB: 11 October 1954( 52) First Elected: 1997 Constituency: Bradford West Party: Labour Place of Birth: Punjab, India
Name: Baroness Shriti Vadera Ministerial Post: Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State in the Department for International Development First Appointed: June 2007 Party: Labour Place of Birth: Uganda Arrived in UK: 1970s
Name: Shailesh Vara DOB: 4 September 1960( 46) First Elected: 2005 Constituency: North West Cambridgeshire Party: Conservative Place of Birth: Uganda Arrived in UK: 1964
Name: Keith Vaz DOB: 26 November 1956( 50) First Elected: 1987 Constituency: Leicester East Party: Labour Place of Birth: Aden, Yemen Arrived in UK: 1965
2007