Fiona Mactaggart

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Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953, Glasgow) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour member of Parliament for the Slough parliamentary constituency. She serves at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for Criminal Justice and Offender Management.

She was first elected to Parliament in 1997. She was a councillor and Leader of the Labour Group on Wandsworth Council from 1988 to 1990. She has been a primary school teacher and Chair of Liberty.

Her father, the late Sir Ian Mactaggart Bt, was a multimillionaire Glasgow property developer, Tory candidate and Europhobe. Her mother's father, Sir Herbert Williams Bt, was a Conservative Member of Parliament for 27 years. Her great-grandfather however was Sir John Mactaggart, the first treasurer of the first ever branch of Keir Hardie's Labour Party.

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