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Duncan Hames is a former MP for Chippenham.

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Profile

Former Liberal Democrat MP for Chippenham

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

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

• Wikipedia page

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Defence
• Health
• Justice
• Work and Pensions
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
• Armed Forces: Disciplinary Proceedings
• Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome
• Appeals: Employment and Support Allowance
• Armed Forces: Complaints

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Political and Constitutional Reform Committee ( 1 Dec 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Richard Needham
• Daniel Awdry
• David Eccles
• Victor Cazalet
• Alfred Bonwick
• George Terrell
• John Dickson-Poynder
• Henry Brudenell-Bruce
• Bannister Fletcher
• Gabriel Goldney
• John Neeld
• Richard Long
• William Lysley
• Henry Boldero
• Robert Nisbet
• Joseph Neeld
• Henry Boldero
• Joseph Neeld
• Henry Boldero
• Joseph Neeld
• Henry Boldero
• Joseph Neeld
• Henry Boldero
• Joseph Neeld
• William Talbot
• Joseph Neeld
• Henry Boldero
• Philip Pusey
• Ebenezer Maitland
• Frederick Gye
• Ebenezer Maitland
• Frederick Gye
• John Grossett
• William Madocks
• John Grossett
• William Madocks
• William Churchill
• Charles Brooke
• John Maitland
• Robert Peel
• Charles Brooke
• James Dawkins
• John Maitland
• James Dawkins
• John Maitland
• James Dawkins
• John Maitland
• Charles Brooke
• James Dawkins

Future MPs in this constituency

• Michelle Donelan
• Sarah Gibson

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
• Local Audit and AccountabilityBill Committee (7 out of 9)
• Intellectual Property Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 9)
• Local Government Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Business of the House (24, 25 and 26 March) (No. 2): Procedure of the House 26 Mar 2015

  I am very grateful to you for calling me, Mr Speaker, not just as a Liberal Democrat but as a Member who had the privilege of joining the House in the most recent intake, in 2010. Since then I have sought to learn a great deal from my colleagues, not least my right hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr Heath), who has been an inspiration to me in respect of the way I have...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Today’s Business of the House 26 Mar 2015

  If the House passes the first motion today in the name of the Leader of the House, it will be to our credit that by extending the deadline for amendments on Report we will have more considered debates with time to consider the arguments, so how can it be that he considers it appropriate for Back Benchers to give the rest of the House more notice, yet in the very same set of motions he gives...

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

  It must be shocking for the MPs involved to hear these revelations, but parents grieving for their dead children still do not know whether their children’s identity was stolen by the special demonstration squad. The Met police has openly apologised to parents to whom that has happened, but they have not put in place any means by which parents worried that someone had impersonated their dead...

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