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Ken Purchase is a former MP for Wolverhampton North East.

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Profile

Former Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East

Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election

Party was Labour/Co-operative until 11 Apr 2005

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Deputy Prime Minister
• Children
• Schools and Families
• Home Department
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Education and Skills
• Council Housing
• Asylum: Bahrain
• Housing
• Steel Barriers
• Committee on Standards in Public Life

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Foreign Affairs Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 11 May 2010)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Maureen Hicks
• Renée Short
• John Baird

Future MPs in this constituency

• Emma Reynolds
• Jane Stevenson
• Sureena Brackenridge

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Children, Schools and Families Bill Committee (8 out of 12)
• Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Enterprise Bill Committee (17 out of 19)

Recent appearances

• Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 — Pupil and parent guarantees 8 Apr 2010

  Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the 1988 Act was a seminal moment in the bureaucracy of education, and that in many ways things have gone downhill since, in terms of what teachers, head teachers and local authorities have had to do in producing league tables, SATs results and a raft of unnecessary changes to the working day in schools?

• Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Written Questions: Government Responses 8 Apr 2010

  To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects to answer Question 324573, on Ofsted, tabled on 23 March 2010.

• Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Ofsted: Operating Costs 7 Apr 2010

  To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the cost was of Ofsted's operations in the last year for which figures are available; and what targets there are for Ofsted to reduce its expenditure in the next three years.

More of Ken Purchase’s recent appearances