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Mr Lawrie Quinn is a former MP for Scarborough and Whitby.

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Former Labour MP for Scarborough and Whitby

Entered the House of Commons on 1 May 1997 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 11 April 2005 — General election (stood again)

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Other offices held in the past

• PPS (Mr Douglas Alexander, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( 2 Nov 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)
• PPS (Mr Douglas Alexander, Minister of State), Department of Trade and Industry ( 2 Nov 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)
• PPS (Mr Douglas Alexander, Minister of State), Cabinet Office ( 7 Sep 2004 to 2 Nov 2004)
• Member, Selection Committee (28 May 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)
• PPS (Mr Douglas Alexander, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), Cabinet Office (13 May 2004 to 7 Sep 2004)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Michael Shaw
• Alexander Spearman
• Herbert Latham
• Sidney Herbert
• Gervase Beckett

Future MPs in this constituency

• Robert Goodwill
• Alison Hume

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Consumer Credit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Finance Bill Committee (20 out of 21)
• Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Civil Contingencies Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
• Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Finance Bill Committee (13 out of 16)
• Local Government Bill Committee (11 out of 14)
• Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Environment 10 Mar 2005

  My hon. Friend will know about the difficulty of disposing of plastics and the problems that it causes the environment. What can his Treasury colleagues do to encourage small firms that want to innovate through trying to find other sources and different ways of disposing of plastics? Econoplas, a firm in my constituency, converts and recycles plastics to create an effective drainage medium,...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Home Office: Community Policing 7 Mar 2005

  To the list of colleagues on the Government Front Bench who recently visited North Yorkshire may I add my hon. Friend the Minister for Crime Reduction, Policing and Community Safety? During her visit she saw community policing successfully deployed in North Yorkshire. I do not recognise the comments made by the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) about the county. The core of the...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Incapacity Benefit 28 Feb 2005

  May I congratulate my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary and the staff of the Department for Work and Pensions on the great help that has been afforded to many of my constituents to get them back into work? In an earlier answer, my hon. Friend referred to additional help. Can she say something this afternoon about those rural constituents of mine who have not only mobility problems, but...

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