Editing Kim Howells (section)

{{Short description|Welsh Labour Party politician}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = Kim Howells
| honorific-suffix = 
| image = Kim Howells 2.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2007
| office = Chairman of the [[Intelligence and Security Committee]]
| term_start = 3 October 2008
| term_end = 11 May 2010
| predecessor = [[Margaret Beckett]]
| successor = [[Malcolm Rifkind]]
| office1 = [[Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]]
| term_start1 = 11 May 2005
| term_end1 = 6 October 2008
| primeminister1 = [[Tony Blair]]<br>[[Gordon Brown]]
| predecessor1 = [[Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean|The Baroness Symons]]
| successor1 = [[Bill Rammell]]
| office2 = [[Department for Education|Minister of State for Higher Education]]
| term_start2 = 10 September 2004
| term_end2 = 11 May 2005
| primeminister2 = [[Tony Blair]]
| predecessor2 = [[Alan Johnson]]
| successor2 = [[Bill Rammell]]
| office3 = [[Minister of State for Transport]]
| term_start3 = 13 June 2003
| term_end3 = 10 September 2004
| primeminister3 = [[Tony Blair]]
| predecessor3 = [[John Spellar]]
| successor3 = [[Tony McNulty]]
| office4 = [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport]]
| term_start4 = 11 June 2001
| term_end4 = 13 June 2003
| primeminister4 = [[Tony Blair]]
| predecessor4 = [[Janet Anderson]]
| successor4 = [[Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey|Andrew McIntosh]]
| office5 = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry]]
| term_start5 = 28 July 1998
| term_end5 = 11 June 2001
| primeminister5 = [[Tony Blair]]
| predecessor5 = [[Nigel Griffiths]]
| successor5 = [[Nigel Griffiths]]
| office6 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br> for [[Pontypridd (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontypridd]]
| predecessor6 = [[Brynmor John]]
| successor6 = [[Owen Smith]]
| term_start6 = 23 February 1989
| term_end6 = 12 April 2010
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|11|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Merthyr Tydfil]], Wales
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| nationality = British
| spouse = Eirlys Davies
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| relations = 
| children = 
| residence = 
| alma_mater = [[Middlesex University]] <br> [[University of Warwick]] <br> [[Anglia Ruskin University]]
| occupation = Politician
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}}
'''Kim Scott Howells''' (born 27 November 1946) is a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] former politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for [[Pontypridd (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontypridd]] from [[1989 Pontypridd by-election|1989]] to [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]], and held a number of [[Minister (government)|ministerial positions]] within the [[Premiership of Tony Blair|Blair]] and [[Brown ministry|Brown governments]].