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William Bain is a former MP for Glasgow North East.

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Profile

Former Labour MP for Glasgow North East

Entered the House of Commons on 13 November 2009 — Byelection

Left the House of Commons on 30 March 2015 — General election

• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Treasury
• Work and Pensions
• Energy and Climate Change
• Transport
• Departmental Food
• Universal Credit
• Departmental Official Cars
• Energy: Prices
• Animal Experiments: Scotland

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee ( 4 Nov 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Shadow Minister (Scotland) ( 7 Oct 2011 to 7 Oct 2013)
• Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2011)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) (12 May 2010 to 8 Oct 2010)
• Member, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) ( 7 Dec 2009 to 6 May 2010)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Michael Martin

Future MPs in this constituency

• Anne McLaughlin
• Paul Sweeney
• Anne McLaughlin
• Maureen Burke

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• European Union (Referendum) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Immigration Bill Committee (9 out of 11)
• Deep Sea Mining Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• PARTNERSHIPS (PROSECUTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL [LORDS] Committee (1 out of 1)
• Financial Services Bill Committee (13 out of 14)
• Bribery Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Children, Schools and Families Bill Committee (2 out of 12)
• Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill Committee (2 out of 1)
• Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Topical Questions 26 Mar 2015

  Has the Secretary of State seen this week’s report by Open Europe, which indicates that unless rights at work in this country were to be completely destroyed, leaving the European Union would cause permanent damage to the British economy? Is not the real risk to businesses and workers at the next election the United Kingdom Independence party-Tory alliance that would destroy our place in...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Public Procurement: Small Businesses 25 Mar 2015

  What steps he is taking to improve access to Government procurement by small and medium-sized enterprises.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Public Procurement: Small Businesses 25 Mar 2015

  The Minister omitted to say in his answer that nine out of 17 Departments spent less with SMEs in 2013-14 than they did in 2012-13. With just 10% of Government contracts going to small businesses, why have this Government been so poor when it comes to procurement from our SME sector?

More of William Bain’s recent appearances