Greg Knight

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Greg Knight

Greg Knight is the Conservative MP for East Yorkshire, he became MP for this area in 2001. He was re-elected for the same seat in May 2005 and May 2010. In the 2010 election he more than doubled his previous majority vote to 13,486. [1]

Parliamentary Career

  • MP for Derby North 1983 –1997
  • MP for East Yorkshire 2001 –
  • parliamentary private secretary to the minister of state for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1987-88
  • Parliamentary private secretary to the minister of state, Department of Health 1988-89
  • Assistant Government whip, 1989-90
  • Lord commissioner of HM Treasury, 1990-93
  • Government deputy chief whip 1993-96
  • Minister of state Department of Trade and Industry 1996-97
  • Deputy shadow leader of the house 2002-03
  • Shadow minister for: Culture, Media and Sport 2003
  • Shadow minister for Environment and Transport 2003-05
  • Shadow minister of State for Transport 2005
  • Chair, House of Commons procedure select committee 2005-12 [2]

Contact

Constituency

  • Address: 18 Exchange Street, Driffield, YO25 6LJ
  • Telephone: 0845 090 0203
  • Email: sothcottt@parliament.uk

Parliamentary

  • Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
  • Telephone: 020 7219 4077
  • Email: sothcottt@parliament.uk

Web & Social media

Notes

  1. Rt Hon Sir Greg Knight MP www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 March 2015
  2. Biography Greg Knight, accessed 9 March 2015