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Will Quince is a former MP for Colchester.

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Former Conservative MP for Colchester

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @willquince
• https://facebook.com/willquincecolchester

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Will Quince campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Department of Health
• Department for Transport
• Home Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Education
• Maternity Services
• Imitation Firearms: Crime
• Refugees: Children
• Soft Drinks: Taxation
• NHS: Drugs

Currently held offices

• Member, Bishop's Stortford Cemetery Bill Unopposed Bill Committee (since 10 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Bishop's Stortford Cemetery Bill Committee (10 Jan 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Finance Bill Committee (10 Jan 2024 to 16 Jan 2024)
• Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) ( 7 Sep 2022 to 13 Nov 2023)
• Minister of State (Education) ( 7 Jul 2022 to 7 Sep 2022)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (16 Sep 2021 to 6 Jul 2022)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ( 4 Apr 2019 to 16 Sep 2021)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 20 Feb 2018)
• Member, Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion Committee (15 Nov 2016 to 23 Oct 2018)
• Member, Transport Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Bob Russell
• Antony Buck
• Cuthbert Alport
• Charles Smith
• Oswald Lewis
• Worthington Evans
• Weetman Pearson
• Herbert Naylor-Leyland
• Brooke
• Henry Trotter
• William Willis
• Richard Causton
• Herbert Mackworth-Praed
• Alexander Learmonth
• John Rebow
• William Brewer
• Edward Karslake
• John Rebow
• Philip Papillon
• Taverner Miller
• Philip Papillon
• Taverner Miller
• John Rebow
• Taverner Miller
• John Manners
• John Rebow
• John Manners
• William Hawkins
• John Manners
• Joseph Hardcastle
• George Smyth
• Richard Sanderson
• George Smyth
• Richard Sanderson
• George Smyth
• Richard Sanderson
• Daniel Harvey
• William Mayhew
• Daniel Harvey
• William Mayhew
• Andrew Spottiswoode
• Daniel Harvey
• George Smyth
• Daniel Harvey
• Henry Baring
• James Wildman
• Henry Baring
• James Wildman
• Daniel Harvey
• William Burroughs
• James Wildman
• William Burroughs
• Hart Davis
• Robert Thornton
• Hart Davis
• Richard Davis
• Robert Thornton
• William Tufnell
• Robert Thornton
• John Denison
• Robert Thornton

Future MPs in this constituency

• Pam Cox

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Smart Meters Bill Committee (3 out of 6)
• Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Homelessness Reduction Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Road Traffic Offenders (Surrender of Driving Licences Etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Valedictory Debate 24 May 2024

  It is a pleasure to follow my dear and hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Dehenna Davison). It has been the honour of my life to serve as Colchester’s Member of Parliament for the past nine years, the last four and a half of which I have been a Government Minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care. I...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Maternity Services: Equality and Safety 24 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether officials in her Department have had discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of (a) renewing the national maternity safety ambition beyond 2025 and (b) extending that ambition to include reducing inequalities.

• Prime Minister: Engagements 22 May 2024

  Our NHS needs to be at the cutting edge of innovation and transformation, so I very much welcome the recent announcement on artificial intelligence in the delivery of radiotherapy. Will my right hon. Friend commit to going further and faster in the roll-out and realising the potential of AI and the latest, most innovative medtech across our NHS, benefiting not only patients, but clinicians?

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