Conservative Members of Parliament for West Sussex
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Francis Maude MP for Horsham
Website: www.francismaude.com |
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Francis was born in 1953. He was educated at Abingdon School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the College of Law. He is married with five children. Francis practised at the criminal bar from 1977-85 and was a councillor for the City of Westminster from 1978-84. He was elected as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire in 1983 until 1992 during which time he was PPS to the Hon Peter Morrison MP, Minister of State for Employment, (1984-85); Assistant Government Whip (1985-87); Minister for Corporate and Consumer Affairs at Department of Trade and Industry (1987-89); Minister of State at Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1989-90); and Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1990-92). In June 1992 he was made a Privy Counsellor in the Dissolution Honours List. Francis was appointed a non-executive Director of ASDA Group Plc in July 1992. He was a Director of Salomon Brothers from 1992-93; a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co Ltd 1993-97. Francis was Chairman of the Government's Deregulation Task Force from 1994-97. In May 1997 Francis was elected to serve as Member of Parliament for Horsham. In June 1997, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Francis was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from June 1998 until February 2000 and from February 2000 to September 2001, he was Shadow Foreign Secretary. In May 2005, Francis returned to the Shadow Front Bench when he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party. He now shadows the Cabinet Office. |
Nicholas SoamesMP for Mid SussexEmail: soamesn@parliament.uk Website: http://www.nicholassoames.org.uk/ |
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Nicholas Soames has been a Member of Parliament for 24 years. He has represented Mid Sussex since 1997 and he previously served as Member of Parliament for Crawley. His Ministerial career included serving as Parliamentary Secretary and Minister of Food at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1992-1994 and as Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 1994-1997. Between November 2003 and May 2005 Nicholas served as Shadow Secretary for Defence and as a member of the Shadow Cabinet. After the 2005 General Election Nicholas stood down from the Shadow Cabinet and he now takes a very active role in Opposition on the backbenches.ï He is a member of the Committee on Standards and Privileges. Nicholas has specialist and detailed knowledge in the fields of defence, Europe, international affairs, trade and industry, aviation and the countryside. He is a Member of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, a Trustee of the Amber Foundation and he sits on the Council of the Royal United Services Institute and he is a member of the Council of the National Trust and the Court of the University of Sussex. Nicholas was born in 1948 and was educated at St. Aubyns, Sussex and Eton College. He is the son of The Late Lord Soames and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill.ï He is married with two sons and a daughter and lives in Mid Sussex. After leaving school he was commissioned into the 11th Hussars (P.A.O) and served in Germany and the United Kingdom.ï He was subsequently Equerry to HRH The Prince of Wales KG. Heï worked as a stockbroker before becoming Personal Assistant to Sir James Goldsmith, where he gained experience both in the manufacturing and service industries in both the USA and Europe. Nicholas worked on the staff of a United States Senator in Washington DC for two years and then joined a firm of Lloyds Brokers as a Director. His hobbies include reading, music, racing and country pursuits.ï He has travelled widely. Amongst many local bodies with which Nicholas is associated are:
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Andrew Tyrie
MP for Chichester
Email: Tyriea@parliament.uk
Website: www.andrewtyrie.com
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Andrew Tyrie
MP for Chichester
Email: Tyriea@parliament.uk
Website: www.andrewtyrie.com
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Andrew grew up in rural Essex, the son of a furniture retailer. He was educated at Felsted School, Trinity College Oxford, the College of Europe Bruges, and Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is a former Woodrow Wilson scholar and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Chichester in the May 1997 general election. During this Parliament Andrew has served as a member of the Public Accounts Commission and the Treasury Select Committee. Andrew is also the Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Parliamentary Reform. He has published several pamphlets: Sense on EMU (European Policy Forum, 1998), Reforming the Lords: a Conservative Approach (Conservative Policy Forum, 1998), Leviathan at Large: the new regulator for the financial markets (Centre for Policy Studies, 2000, Mr Blairïs Poodle: an agenda for reviving the House of Commons (Centre for Policy Studies, 2000), Back from the Brink (Parliamentary Mainstream, 2001), Statism by Stealth: New Labour, new collectivism (Centre for Policy Studies, 2002), Axis of Instability: America, Britain, and The New World Order after Iraq (The Bow Group and the Foreign Policy Centre, 2003). Previously he was Senior Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has been a full-time adviser to successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson and John Major MP. He worked closely with them in the Treasury, giving advice on reducing taxes, particularly income tax, privatisation, encouraging enterprise and cutting red tape. He started his career in industry with British Petroleum. |
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Nick Gibb MP for Bognor Regis & Littlehampton Shadow Minister for Schools Email: brlca@tory.org
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Nick was born in 1960. He was educated at Maidstone Grammar School; Roundhay School, Leeds; Thornes House School, Wakefield; and Durham University, where he achieved an honours degree in law. Nick is the author of numerous reports for public policy think-tanks on tax reform and economics. Nick was a Frontbench Spokesman on Trade and Industry matters from June 1999 to September 2001, the previous year having been appointed Frontbench Spokesman on Treasury matters. In 1997, he won the constituency of Bognor Regis & Littlehampton with a majority of 7,321 and the same year was appointed to the Conservative Parliamentary Social Security Committee. Previously he was the Conservative candidate in the Rotherham by-election in 1994 and stood for Stoke-on-Trent Central in the 1992 General Election. Nick was Treasurer (1988-89) and Chairman (1989-90) of Bethnal Green and Stepney Conservative Association. He was formerly a Chartered Accountant specialising in corporate taxation with KPMG and was an Aide to Cecil Parkinson in the 1987 General Election. |
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Peter Bottomley
MP for Worthing West
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Peter was born in 1944. He was educated at a mixed comprehensive school in Washington DC, Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is married with one son and two daughters. His wife, Virginia, is a Member of Parliament for South West Surrey. His previous careers have included lorry driving, industrial sales and industrial relations. He is an industrial economist. He has been Chairman of the Church of England Childrenïs Society and a trustee of Christian Aid. He founded Family Forum. He is on the executive of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. He has been a member of the Child Poverty Action Group and Transport House branch of the Transport and General Workersï Union. Peter was President of the Conservative Trade Unionists from 1978 to 1980. His special interests include family policy and foreign relations. He contested West Woolwich in the general elections of February and October 1974. He won the seat in June 1975, renamed Eltham. This was the first by-election win under Margaret Thatcherïs leadership. He has served as Secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Health and Social Services (1977-1979) and Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1979 to81). He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Cranley Onslow MP, Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1982-83) and then Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt.Hon Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services. In September 1984, Peter was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office where his responsibilities included agriculture and the environment. In 1992, Peter was appointed to serve on the Select Committee for Transport. In the 1997 general election, Peter was elected Member of Parliament for Worthing West, West Sussex. In June 1997, Peter was appointed to serve on the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges. |
Shadow Minister for Health & Children Email: loughtont@parliament.uk Website: www.timloughton.com
Tim was born in May 1962, and educated at the Priory School, Lewes, Sussex, the University of Warwick (BA First class honours) and Clare College Cambridge. He is married to Elizabeth and they have one son and two daughters. Before becoming an MP, Tim worked at Fleming Private Asset Management in the City of London, becoming a director in March 1992. Tim joined the Conservative Party in 1977, and was elected MP for the new constituency East Worthing and Shoreham in May 1997. In the 1992 General Election he stood as a candidate for Sheffield Brightside against David Blunkett, achieving 16th largest swing from Labour to Conservative in England. From March 1994 to date he has been Deputy Chairman of Battersea Constituency Conservative Association; Executive Committee member of Selsdon Group: a member of Carlton Political Committee and a Chairman of Battersea Business Forum. From February 1993 to date he has been Chairman of Battersea ward and Member of London Area Executive Committee, and a Life Vice-President Sheffield Brightside Constituency Association. From May 1990 to April 1992 he was Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Sheffield Brightside; Vice Chairman Battersea Conservative Association; Candidate in his own ward at Wandsworth Borough Council Elections. As a student his political activity included Cambridge University Conservative Association; Secretary Warwick University Conservative Association; Vice-Chairman South East Area Young Conservatives; Vice-Chairman Sussex Young Conservatives - Vice Chairman Lewes Constituency Conservative Association and Lewes Y.C. Branch Chairman and setting up the ïCommunity Politics Action Groupï. His special interests groups are as follows:- the Selsdon Group, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Conservative Way Forward, the Environmental Transport Group, the World-wide Fund for Nature, Tibet Action (UK), and the RSPCA. His public offices and appointments include being the Chairman of the Finance Committee for Latchmere School Governors, Battersea, Special Governor Appointee to Battersea Technology College, local authority appointee to Wandsworth Community Health Council, Vice-Chairman Wandsworth Alcohol Council, Appointee Wandsworth Health Authority Substance Misuse Committee, Member Battersea Sector Policing Group, Member Securities and Futures Association Working Party on Training, Vice-Chairman Shoreham Old Town Hall Trust. Tim's Parliamentary Career is as follows:- he was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance Bill 1997, the Hon Treasury Secretary of The Parliamentary Maritime Group, a member of the All Party Group on Alcohol Misuse. Other groups include the All Party Disablement Group, the All Party Parliamentary group for Tibet, The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children, the All Party Parliamentary Drug Misuse Group and the Member Select Committee in the Environmental Audit. He was appointed an Opposition Front Bench Spokesman for the Environment, Transport and Regions in February 2000. In September 2001, he was appointed a Frontbench Spokesman for Health.
Nick Herbert MP for Arundel & South Downs Shadow Minister for Police Reform Email: nick@nickherbert.com Website: www.nickherbert.com
Nick has been MP for Arundel & South Downs since May 2005 and Shadow Minister for Police Reform since December 2005.
Prior to his election Nick was the Director of Reform, the independent think tank he co-founded in 2002. Reform aims to ïset out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperityï and has been described as ïthe most important think tank to emerge for a decadeï.
From 1998 to 2000, Nick was Chief Executive of Business for Sterling, where he launched the successful ïnoï campaign against the Euro. He continues to believe that too much power has been transferred to the European Union and that the process not only needs to be halted but also now put in reverse so that powers are returned to national parliaments, where they belong.
In the 1997 election Nick stood as the Conservative candidate in Berwick upon Tweed, one of the most rural seats in England. Nick is passionate about defending rural communities. From 1990 to 1996 he worked for the British Field Sports Society, becoming Director of Political Affairs. In this role, he played a leading role in setting up the Countryside Movement, which became the Countryside Alliance.
Nick went to school at Haileybury, from where he won an Open Exhibition to read Law and Land Economy at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He lives in Arundel and in his spare time he enjoys racing and country sports and watching cricket and rugby. He also enjoys going to the theatre, cinema and opera.
Tim Loughton
MP Shoreham & East Worthing
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