Margaret Ann Coffey (née Brown; born 31 August 1946)[2] is a British former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1992 to 2019.

[7] Born as Margaret Ann Brown to a Royal Air Force officer,[2] in Inverness, she attended Nairn Academy, Bodmin County Grammar School (which closed in 1973), Bushey Grammar School and the Borough Polytechnic Institute in London, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology in 1969, and was elected vice president of the students' union.

She contested the parliamentary seat of Cheadle at the 1987 General Election, and finished in third place, some 25,000 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Stephen Day.

When Labour won the 1997 General Election, Coffey was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Following the resignation of Tony Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June 2007, Coffey became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling.

[14] In 2017, Coffey wrote a follow-up report, Real Voices – Are they being heard?, which looked at improvements made by the police and other agencies in tackling child sexual exploitation since 2014.

Coffey campaigned for the children used and trapped in County Lines to be seen as victims, not criminals and for early interventions by agencies to prevent them becoming embedded in gangs.

[22] She also penned opinion pieces in which she suggested juries may be scrapped and replaced in such cases, due to the existence of "rape myths" amongst jurors.