Fiona Mactaggart was first elected MP for Slough in 1997 and was one of 101 Labour women to enter Parliament that year. She was re-elected in June 2001, May 2005 and May 2010.

Before becoming an MP, Fiona was director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and briefly a press officer for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. She has been an inner London primary school teacher and a university lecturer at London University Institute of Education and worked in a private company.

Fiona held elected offices in the NUS and a student union and on Wandsworth Council, where she was leader of the Labour Group between 1988 and 1990. She was also Chair of Liberty.

Fiona is an advisor to the Innovation, Justice and Youth Project.