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Alan Simpson is a former MP for Nottingham South.

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Former Labour MP for Nottingham South

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Defence
• Health
• Trade and Industry
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• GM Crops
• Nuclear Weapons
• Childhood Obesity
• Iraq
• Genetically Modified Organisms

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (28 May 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Martin Brandon-Bravo
• Norman Fowler
• George Perry
• William Clark
• Denis Keegan
• Henry Smith
• Frank Markham
• George Knight
• Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
• Arthur Richardson
• Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
• Henry Wright
• John Williams

Future MPs in this constituency

• Lilian Greenwood

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Sustainable Energy Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Home Energy Conservation Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Hunting Bill Committee (13 out of 16)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Health: Mentally Ill: Nottinghamshire 7 Apr 2010

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 in Nottinghamshire (a) in total and (b) in secure wards; and what the equivalent figures were in 2005.

• Amendment of the Law 29 Mar 2010

  I came into the House 18 years ago frustrated by a Government who had sold the pass on manufacturing in favour of a dangerous flirtation with speculative and deregulated finance. So, a lot has changed in those 18 years. We are where we are because of the mess that speculative and deregulated finance has taken the UK and global economy into. We currently hover somewhere between recession and...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (Poppy Cultivation) 29 Mar 2010

  I welcome the proposals to support the growing of pomegranates, wheat, raisins and alternative crops that have been proposed by Afghan farmers over many years, but does the Minister understand that for them the key issue is not what they will be encouraged to grow but who will be a secure buyer of what they grow? Has the Minister any plans to step in and at least recognise that the starting...

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