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Revision as of 00:53, 11 October 2012
Michael Fallon is the Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party since September 2010. He was appointed business minister in September 2012 at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and is due be made a Privy Counsellor. [1]
Background
- Fallon is a graduate of St Andrews University (MA Honours) and began his political career as MP for Darlington from 1983-1992. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt.Hon. Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Energy from 1987 to 1988 when he became a Government Whip. In 1990 he joined Margaret Thatcher's Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Schools Minister), and continued to serve under John Major.
- Between 1992 and 1997 he developed his business career as a director of three companies founded by Dragons Den star Duncan Bannatyne before returning to Parliament in 1997. He served as a shadow Treasury Minister under William Hague before joining the Treasury Select Committee of which he was deputy chairman from 2001 until 2010. [2]
Affiliations
- Associate Parliamentary Group on Wholesale Financial Markets and Services
- House of Commons Treasury Select Committee
- Tullett Prebon brokerage - held an independent non-executive director, for which he received a regular quarterly payment ranging between £6,436.08 and £7947.78. He resigned this directorship on 28 May 2010 [3], was reappointed 28 September 2010. [4]
- Attendo AB - Scandinavian social and health care provider. Received annual fee of £13,651.09 net. Hours: 20 hrs approximately. (Registered 17 January 2012). Resigned 25 April 2012 [5]
Publications
- The Quango Explosion: Public Bodies and Ministerial Patronage by Philip Holland and Michael Fallon, 1978, Conservative Political Centre ISBN 0-85070-621-1
- Sovereign Members by Michael Fallon, 1982
- The Rise of the Euroquango by Michael Fallon, 1982, Adam Smith Institute ISBN 0-906517-22-2
- Brighter Schools: Attracting Private Investment into State Schools by Michael Fallon, 1993, Social Market Foundation ISBN 1-874097-15-1
Contact
- Address:Sevenoaks Conservatives, Becket House, Vestry Road, Sevenoaks, TN14 5EL
- Email: office@sevenoakstory.org.uk /
- Website: http://www.sevenoaksconservatives.org
Notes
- ↑ Michael Fallon becomes business minister, The Telegraph, September 2012, acc 5 September 2012
- ↑ Michael Fallon, MP, Conservatives.com, accessed 15 May 2012
- ↑ House of Commons, Register of MP's Financial Interests, as of 6 September 2010
- ↑ House of Commons, Register of MP's Financial Interests, as of (date)
- ↑ House of Common MPs Register of Financial Interests
