Stephen Dorrell
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Stephen Dorrell is a Conservative MP and former Secretary of State for Health. He was chair of the Health Select Committee from 2010 until June 2014.
His views are seen as an important guide to Tory thinking on the NHS, reflecting a strong belief in the power of markets, choice and competition to produce benefits for patients.[1]
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Revolving door and conflict of interest controversy
In November 2014, just months after resigning from the powerful Health Select Committee, Dorrell announced he would quit parliament at the 2015 election due to his taking up a new job as a health consultant at Big Four firm KPMG. He is working three days a week for them from December 2014 but intends to remain an MP until the election.
The announcement prompted calls for his resignation as an MP but despite acknowledging the incompatability of combining public service with working for KPMG, who are planning on bidding for a £1 billion NHS contract, [2] [3] Dorrell has not stepped down.
External interests
Between March 2013 and February 2014 Dorrell was among the highest earning Tory MPs for outside earnings, with £134,000.[4]
Affiliations
2020 Public Services Trust: Dorrell is a commissioner at the think tank.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Randeep Ramesh, Public sector cuts: Stephen Dorrell warns against ringfencing NHS budget, Guardian, 6 July 2010
- ↑ David Singleton Dorrell takes KMPG advisory post Public Affairs News, 25 November 2014, accessed 26 November 2014
- ↑ Stephen Dorrell MP faces calls to resign over conflict of interest Telegraph, 1 December 2014, accessed 9 December 2014
- ↑ Vincent Moss Tory MPs earn a combined £4MILLION from their lucrative jobs on the side Mirror, 30 March 2014, accessed 23 February 2015
- ↑ 2020 PST website, Commissioners, accessed Nov 2010
