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Tan Chuan-Jin
Personal details
陈川仁

Current Role	• •
Party	ex-PAP

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2017 to 2023 - Speaker of the Parliament
2011 to 2023 - MP for Marine Parade GRC
2014 to 2015 - Minister for Manpower
2015 to 2017 - Minister for Social and Family Development

Controversies

Affair with fellow MP while holding post of Speaker of Parliament

Old people collect cardboard as 'exercise'

Jul 2015 - Youth Corp members highlighted the plight of some cardboard collectors in Singapore
- as Minister of Social and Family Development, he commented that "Some prefer to earn extra monies, treat it as a form of exercise and activity rather than being cooped up at home."^[1]
- roundly criticised by public for being out-of-touch and putting a spin on the lives of the elderly aunties and uncles who pick cardboards for a living and that his remarks were insensitive and amounted to whitewashing a sad situation.

Latest Update

as of 2025, he refers to himself as " Leader", "Consultant", "Advisor", "Board Member", "Mentor", "Speaker" on his Linkedin page.

Tan Chuan-Jin's latest post dated Jan-Feb 2025

14th Parliament

MP	:	Ang Wei Neng ● Baey Yam Keng ● Cheryl Chan Wei Ling ● Chan Chun Sing ● Chee Hong Tat ● Cheng Li Hui ● Edward Chia Bing Hui ● Chong Kee Hiong ● Desmond Choo ● Chua Kheng Wee Louis ● Eric Chua ● Darryl David ● Christopher de Souza ● Foo Mee Har ● Grace Fu Hai Yien ● Gan Kim Yong ● Gan Siow Huang ● Gan Thiam Poh ● Gerald Giam ● Derrick Goh ● He Ting Ru ● Heng Chee How ● Heng Swee Keat ● Shawn Huang Wei Zhong ● Indranee Rajah ● S Iswaran ● Janil Puthucheary ● Amy Khor Lean Suan ● Koh Poh Koon ● Kwek Hian Chuan Henry ● Desmond Lee ● Lee Hsien Loong ● Liang Eng Hwa ● Lim Biow Chuan ● Jamus Jerome Lim ● Sylvia Lim ● Lim Wee Kiak ● Low Yen Ling ● Mariam Jaafar ● Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad ● Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman ● Mohd Fahmi Bin Aliman ● Muhamad Faisal Bin Abdul Manap ● Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim ● Murali Pillai ● Nadia Ahmad Samdin ● Ng Eng Hen ● Ng Ling Ling ● Louis Ng Kok Kwang ● Rachel Ong ● Ong Ye Kung ● Joan Pereira ● Leon Perera ● Denise Phua Lay Peng ● Poh Li San ● Pritam Singh ● Raeesah Khan ● Rahayu Mahzam ● Saktiandi Supaat ● Seah Kian Peng ● K Shanmugam ● Sharael Taha ● Sim Ann ● Sitoh Yih Pin ● Hany Soh ● Sun Xueling ● Alvin Tan ● Carrie Tan ● Tan Chuan-Jin ● Dennis Tan Lip Fong ● Desmond Tan ● Jessica Tan Soon Neo ● Tan Kiat How ● Tan See Leng ● Tan Wu Meng ● Patrick Tay Teck Guan ● Teo Chee Hean ● Josephine Teo ● Tharman Shanmugaratnam ● Tin Pei Ling ● Edwin Tong Chun Fai ● Vikram Nair ● Vivian Balakrishnan ● Wan Rizal ● Don Wee ● Lawrence Wong ● Xie Yao Quan ● Alex Yam Ziming ● Yeo Wan Ling ● Yip Hon Weng ● Melvin Yong Yik Chye ● Zaqy Mohamad ● Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim
NCMP	:	Leong Mun Wai ● Hazel Poa

References

↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20250223193257/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/13/msf-ministers-post-on-cardboard-collectors-draws-flak/

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+* 2017 to 2023 - Speaker of the Parliament
+* 2011 to 2023 - MP for Marine Parade GRC
+* 2014 to 2015 - Minister for Manpower
+* 2015 to 2017 - Minister for Social and Family Development
+==Controversies==
+===Affair with fellow MP while holding post of Speaker of Parliament===
+*
+*
+===Old people collect cardboard as 'exercise'===
+* Jul 2015 - Youth Corp members highlighted the plight of some cardboard collectors in Singapore
+** as Minister of Social and Family Development, he commented that "Some prefer to earn extra monies, treat it as a form of exercise and activity rather than being cooped up at home."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250223193257/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/13/msf-ministers-post-on-cardboard-collectors-draws-flak/</ref>
+** roundly criticised by public for being out-of-touch and putting a spin on the lives of the elderly aunties and uncles who pick cardboards for a living and that his remarks were insensitive and amounted to whitewashing a sad situation.
 ==Latest Update==