Carol Jean Mountford (née Newton; born 12 January 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Colne Valley from 1997 until she retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.
She was also active in the CPSA (which became the PCS in 1998), with joint membership of the IPCS (Institute of Professional and Civil Servants) as a regional and national officer.
[2] The Colne Valley seat was then won by the Conservative Party candidate, Jason McCartney.
Mountford was suspended from the House of Commons for five working days in 1998 for leaking a Social Security Select Committee report to the government.
The House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee stated that although there were some mitigating circumstances for her behaviour, she had in fact "aggravated her original offence by denying responsibility".