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Sam Gyimah is a former MP for East Surrey.

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Profile

Former Independent MP for East Surrey

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 6 November 2019 — Dissolved for election

Party was Conservative until 3 Sep 2019

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @SamGyimah
• https://facebook.com/GyimahforEastSurrey

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Sam Gyimah campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Treasury
• Communities and Local Government
• Education
• Transport
• Higher Education: Scholarships
• Higher Education: Admissions
• Academies: Underperforming Schools
• Students: Finance
• Disabled People: Employment

Other offices held in the past

• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (21 Oct 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (21 Jan 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Minister of State (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Higher Education) ( 9 Jan 2018 to 2 Dec 2018)
• Minister of State (Education) ( 9 Jan 2018 to 2 Dec 2018)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (17 Jul 2016 to 9 Jan 2018)
• The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (15 Jul 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (15 Jul 2014 to 17 Jul 2016)
• The Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury ( 7 Oct 2013 to 15 Jul 2014)
• Member, International Development Committee (14 Feb 2011 to 5 Nov 2012)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (11 Oct 2010 to 12 Nov 2012)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Peter Ainsworth
• Geoffrey Howe
• William Clark
• Charles Doughty
• Michael Astor

Future MPs in this constituency

• Claire Coutinho

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Prisons and Courts Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Childcare Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Intellectual Property Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Consumer Rights Bill Committee (15 out of 15)
• Finance Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Education Bill Committee (22 out of 22)
• Public Bodies Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Finance (No. 4) Bill Committee (11 out of 14)

Recent appearances

• Grenfell Tower Inquiry 30 Oct 2019

  I pay tribute to the families and people from the Grenfell community who are here to listen to this important debate. Upon reading the report, all of us should have the human reactions of anger, grief and shock at what happened on the fateful day of 14 June 2017. Those who lost their lives could have been our friends, our brothers, our cousins, our parents or our grandparents. They had their...

• Leaving the EU: Workers’ Rights 29 Oct 2019

  The Secretary of State’s words ring hollow simply because workers’ rights were in the legally binding withdrawal agreement and have now been moved into the political declaration. But her reassurances ring hollow for another reason: the logic of leaving the EU to look for new trade deals is that whatever we want will come at the price of what the other country wants. The desire for a US...

• The Economy 24 Oct 2019

  This Queen’s Speech is a pre-election stunt, as many have acknowledged today. As such, it is long on spending promises—what some would call pork barrel politics—and short on a real plan for the economy. This Queen’s Speech has 25 words devoted to the economy, whereas the 2017 Queen’s Speech had five paragraphs and in the 2016 Queen’s Speech the economy was the main priority. This...

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