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Edward Timpson is a former MP for Eddisbury.

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Profile

Former Conservative MP for Eddisbury

Entered the House of Commons on 23 May 2008 — Byelection

Left the House of Commons on 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

Also represented Crewe and Nantwich

• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @edwardtimpson
• https://facebook.com/Edward4CreweAndNantwich

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Edward Timpson campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Education
• Justice
• Treasury
• Health
• Children
• Schools and Families
• Revenue and Customs: Crewe
• Adoption
• Written Questions: Government Responses
• Pupils: Epilepsy
• Organs: Donors

Other offices held in the past

• Member, School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill Committee (24 Apr 2024 to 1 May 2024)
• Member, Justice Committee (29 Nov 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• The Solicitor-General ( 7 Jul 2022 to 7 Sep 2022)
• Member, Health and Care Bill Committee ( 7 Sep 2021 to 2 Nov 2021)
• Minister of State (Education) ( 8 May 2015 to 12 Jun 2017)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education ( 6 Sep 2012 to 8 May 2015)
• Member, Children, Schools and Families Committee (13 Oct 2008 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (13 Oct 2008 to 6 May 2010)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Stephen O'Brien
• Alastair Goodlad
• John Barlow
• John Loverseed
• Richard Russell
• Harry Barnston
• Arthur Stanley
• Harry Barnston
• Arthur Stanley
• Henry Tollemache

Future MPs in this constituency

• Stephen O'Brien
• Antoinette Sandbach

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Health and Care Bill Committee (16 out of 22)
• Children and Social Work Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Education and Adoption Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
• Children and Families Bill Committee (19 out of 19)
• Identity Documents Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Children, Schools and Families Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
• Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Saving Gateway Accounts Bill Committee (3 out of 5)
• Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Children and Young Persons Bill Committee (7 out of 7)

Recent appearances

• Coroners 24 May 2024

  May I begin by echoing the comments by the Chair of the Justice Committee, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill)? In doing so, I pay my respects to him for his leadership of the Committee over the best part of a decade—we see so much change and churn in this place. I pay tribute to him for his knowledge, his experience, his humanity, his...

• Coroners 24 May 2024

  The hon. Gentleman, my friend, was my first Select Committee Chair back in 2008, when I joined the Children, Schools and Families Committee—a baptism of fire, as it turned out. I have been fortunate enough to serve under a number of excellent Chairs over the years. I wish him well in whatever comes next in the varied and colourful life that I am sure lies ahead of him. Some of the detail...

• Coroners 24 May 2024

  I am extremely grateful to my hon. and learned Friend. I probably ought now to declare my interests, which are on the register, not least my brother’s chairmanship of the Prison Reform Trust. They are there for all to see. It is true that there is clearly a gene in the Timpson family that makes us want to reach out beyond our own family to help others, whether that is through fostering or...

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