Edward Timpson
Edward Timpson has been the Conservative Party MP for Crewe and Nantwich since 2008. In the 2015 general election he was re-elected with a majority of 3,620. [1]
Timpson was appointed minister of state for children and families at the Department for Education in May 2015, having previously served as parliamentary under-secretary from 2012 until Aprile 2015.[2]
Background
Timpson practised as a family law barrister in Cheshire courts, specialising in the cases of vulnerable children. He sat on the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights. He was also chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Adoption and Fostering, Looked-after Children and Care Leavers.
He is also vice chairman for the Run-away and Missing Children Group. [3]
Between 2010 and 2012 he was parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary Theresa May. [3]
Education
Timpson studied political sciences at Durham University and then did a law conversion at the College of Law, London. He also sat his bar exams at the Inns of Court School of Law. [3]
Notes
- ↑ Edward Timpson Express, accessed 19 May 2015
- ↑ Mr Edward Timpson, www.parliament.uk, accessed 25 August 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Edward Timpson GOV.UK, accessed 10 October 2014
