NHS South East Coast

New MPs ‐ May 2010

Please note: much of the information in the following biographies

has been taken from the websites of the MPs and their political parties.

NHS AND HOVE

Mike Weatherley ‐ Hove (Cons) Caroline Lucas ‐ Brighton Pavillion (Green) Leader of the Green Party of and Qualified as a Chartered Management Wales. Previously Green Party Member Accountant and Chartered Marketeer. of the European Parliament for the South From 1994 to 2000 was part owner of a East of England region. company called Cash Based in She was a member of the European Newhaven. From 2000 to 2005 was Parliament’s Environment, Public Health Financial Controller for Pete Waterman. and Food Safety Committee. Most recently Vice President for Finance and Administration () for the Has worked for a major UK development world’s largest non-theatrical film licensing agency providing research and policy company. analysis on trade, development and environment issues. Has held various Previously a Borough Councillor in positions in the Green Party since joining in 1986 and is an . acknowledged expert on climate change, international trade and Has run the Marathon for the Round Table Children’s Wish peace issues. Foundation and most recently last year completed the London to Vice President of the RSPCA, the Stop the War Coalition, Campaign Brighton bike ride for the British Heart Foundation. Has also Against Climate Change, Railfuture and Environmental Protection completed a charity bike ride for the music therapy provider Nordoff UK. Member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament National Robbins. Council and a Director of the International Forum on Globalization. Elected MP for Hove in May 2010. Advisory board member of several think tanks.

Elected MP for Brighton Pavillion in May 2010.

Simon Kirkby ‐ Brighton Kemptown (Cons)

Helped establish Brighton radio station now known as Juice FM and jointly owned local leisure business C-Side with partner Martin Webb (now a TV presenter and Telegraph columnist).

Was involved in campaigning for city status for Brighton & Hove.

Elected to represent the people of Kemptown in 1992 on East County Council. Has also been a representative on the Brighton Borough and City Councils.

Stood down as a Cabinet member on County Council in 2009.

Elected MP for Brighton Kemptown in May 2010.

NHS EAST SUSSEX DOWNS AND WEALD

Norman Baker ‐ (Lib Dem) Stephen Lloyd ‐ (Liberal Democrat)

Regional Executive Director for Our Price Born and brought up in . Records until 1983 and has had various Lives in Eastbourne. His partner other jobs, including as an environmental works for the NHS as a community campaigner. matron. Is a school governor at Representative on Council Ocklynge School and a Trustee of between 1987 and 1999 (also a former WELMind Council leader) and a representative on Previously Business Development East Sussex County Council between Director of business-improvement 1989 and 1997. company, Grass Roots. Elected MP for Lewes in 1997. Has also worked with the Environment Protection Finance Initiative and the Federation of Small Businesses. Has campaigned in regard to services at Eastbourne’s District Mr Lloyd is deaf. General Hospital and has campaigned for a hospital in Seaford. Website states that he “wants to see improvements to local health services for Easbourne residents” Supported the ‘Save the DGH’ campaign.

Charles Hendry ‐ Wealden (Cons)

Has a degree in Business Studies from Edinburgh University.

Has been MP for Wealden since 2001.

Was MP for High Peak from 1992 - 1997, deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 2003 - 2005 and Shadow Minister for Young People. Appointed Chief of Staff to the Rt Hon during his leadership of the Party.

Business career was mostly spent working for international marketing companies. Was

Founder/Chairman/Chief Executive of The Agenda Group 1999 -

2005.

Has a wide range of political interests including trade and industry, youth policy, rural affairs and agriculture. Trustee of the UK Youth Parliament and Patron of the Big Issue Foundation.

Appointed Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, May 2010.

Website says: “I am continuing to work to safeguard the future of the Accident & Emergency and maternity units at all the hospitals which serve the Wealden constituency.

We will continue to maintain pressure on the Government to see that the new hospital being built in Tunbridge Wells will have the full range of facilities local people need.”

NHS HASTINGS AND ROTHER

Gregory Barker ‐ Bexhill & Battle (Cons) ‐ Hastings & Rye (Cons)

Graduated in History, Economic History & Went to Edinburgh University, having spent Politics from London University in 1987 and a year at the University of Pennsylvania in worked in the for 10 years. the US. In 1988, after working at the Centre for Started a career in banking and moved into Policy Studies, he trained as smaller venture capital and subsequently head- companies analyst and became a Corporate hunting. Also wrote for financial Finance Director of Australian- owned publications, specialising in financial International Pacific Securities, specialising recruitment. in cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Elected MP for Hastings & Rye May 2010. Was elected MP for Bexhill and in June 2001. Website notes that she has been “an active campaigner to maintain Supports many local groups and charities including being Vice Patron and improve services at the Conquest hospital” and comments that of East Sussex Association for the Blind and the St Michaels Hospice her priorities for Hastings and Rye are “education, health and Capital Appeal. business opportunities”.

Was appointed Shadow Environment Minister in December 2005. In 2008 he authored ‘Root to Branch, Education for a Greener Future’ published by the Education Commission.

Closely involved on behalf of the Conservatives with the Climate Change Act in 2008 and promoted to Shadow Climate Change Minister the same year.

Is a GLOBE International Commissioner on Climate and Energy Security and member of the UK Green Fiscal Commission.

NHS EASTERN & COASTAL

Julian Brazier ‐ Canterbury (Con) ‐ Folkestone & Hythe (Cons)

Worked for nine years with Charter Member of the 'Kent Contemporary Consolidated plc (mining and industrial Working Group' supporting Visit Kent's holding company), doing economic work to attract new visitors and research, corporate finance and as investment into the county. secretary to the executive directors. Founding Director of the Conservative Spent three years with HP Maynard as an Arts and Creative Industries Network international management consultant. launched in May 2009 and involved in Served as an officer in the Territorial developing Conservative Party policy in Army for thirteen years, six of them in the area. Airborne forces. Joined the M&C Saatchi advertising agency in London in 1999 and in Elected MP for Canterbury and Whitstable in 1987. 2005 became Managing Director of Influence Communications Ltd (a company specialising in social and political issues campaigns). Previously a Shadow Minister with specific responsibility Joined Lexington Communications in 2008. for drugs and alcohol abuse. Former President of the University Conservative Association Website states that Mr Brazier previously campaigned against the and employee of the Conservative Party Research Department. Has ‘threatened’ closure of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 1997. been an active member of the Bow Group. Elected MP for Folkestone and Hythe in May 2010.

Laura Sandys ‐ Thanet South (Cons) ‐ Dover (Cons)

Set up her first business by the time she was A tax lawyer who previously worked in 19. Subsequently set up and sold two small the pharmaceutical research industry. companies that specialised in campaigning, communications and marketing A research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and expert on tax and pensions. A former Research Associate at the Centre for Defence Studies, she worked with the Ministry Elected MP for Dover in May 2010. of Defence during the war in Iraq. Was Deputy Chairman of the Civic Trust, which represents the civic societies across the country and a Trustee of the Open University. Recently appointed President of the Kent Federation of Amenity Societies. Has campaigned in regard to health services in Dover. Website Was a member of ’s “Democracy Taskforce”. reports “I am passionate about Dover having a proper hospital with beds and doctor led emergency services.” Elected MP for Thanet South in May 2010

Website says she will be calling for greater resources for the care of the elderly.

Hugh Robertson ‐ and Mid Kent (Cons) ‐ Thanet North (Cons)

Was educated at The King's School He is a former producer and director of Canterbury, The Royal Military Academy current affairs programmes for the BBC, Sandhurst and Reading University where former editor of Thames Television’s he gained a BSc (Honours) degree in Teenage Unit, and a former freelance Land Management specialising in radio journalist. property investment. He has business experience both in the Was an army officer in The Life Guards film industry and in market research. from 1985 - 1995. Commanded The Was the funding Chairman of the All Household Cavalry on the 1993 Queen's Party Group for the Fund for the Birthday Parade and State Opening of Replacement of Animals in Medical Parliament. Was awarded The Sultan of Brunei's Personal Order of Experiments. Merit for his work during the 1992 state visit. Saw active service in Northern , during the , in Bosnia during the siege of Sarajevo and with the UN in . He retired as a Major in 1995. He has served as a Special Constable with the British Transport Police and as a PPS to the Minister of State for the Armed Forces Worked in the investment management arm of Schroders and was an between 1992 and 1995. From 2001- 2003 he was a Vice Chairman Assistant Director of Schroder Investment Management. of the Conservative Party. Was elected to Parliament in June 2001.Has been Secretary of the Was first elected as MP for Margate, Herne Bay & The Villages (now All Party Parliamentary Fruit Group since his election in 2001. Thanet North) in 1983. Became Shadow Sports Spokesman in September 2004 and President of the Conservative Animal Welfare Group, he is also an Shadow Minister for Sport in February 2005. Following the successful Honorary Member of the British Veterinary Association and an bid for the London Olympics, was also appointed Shadow Olympics honorary life member of The League Against Cruel Sports. Minister. His website states: “There is much to be proud of and much to build Appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the upon within the totality that is the NHS but there are also failings that Department for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. have to be corrected and there is waste and inefficiency that must be eliminated and tiers of bureaucracy that need to be subjected to much greater scrutiny.”

Gordon Henderson ‐ Sittingbourne & Sheppey (Cons) ‐ Ashford (Cons)

Has lived on the Isle of Sheppey for over Attended Balliol College Oxford and was 20 years. President of the in 1977. Left school to work for Woolworths in A former financial journalist. Worked in Chatham for 15 years, progressing from the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit from stockroom assistant to senior store 1992-94. Was elected MP for Ashford in manager. Ran his own restaurant in May 1997. South Africa, was a senior contracts officer for GEC Marconi in Rochester, a Has been a Conservative Spokesman on director of the Unwins Wine Group and Education and Employment, Operations Manager of the UK’s largest Conservative Environment Spokesman manufacturer of alcoholic based gifts Shadow Secretary of State for Education based in Dartford. and Skills from 2001 - 2003, and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport from 2003 - 2004. Was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee and a member of the Treasury Select Committee. In December 2005, Has held a number of elected posts in local government. He was he was appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration. twice deputy leader of Swale Borough Council and was also a Kent County Councillor, during which time he sat both on the Education Is Chairman of Parliamentary Mainstream, and a Vice-President of Committee and the Kent Police Authority. He has retained a keen the . He is a Vice-Chairman of the John Smith interest in education and law and order. Memorial Trust.

Has been involved in the local community as an instructor in the Appointed Minister for Immigration, May 2010. Army Cadet Force, a director of the SWIM training centre Website says that he was “frustrated” to hear of the cancellation of (Sittingbourne) and as a school governor. the Kings Avenue health development. Was elected MP for Sittingbourne & Sheppey in May 2010.

NHS

Rehman Chishti ‐ Gillingham (Cons) Mark Reckless ‐ Rochester & Strood (Cons)

Has lived in Gillingham and Rainham for Graduated in Philosophy, Politics and most of his life. Economics from Oxford University and has an MBA from Columbia Business After completing a Law degree at the School. University of Wales Aberystwyth, was called to the Bar of England and Wales at More recently trained as a barrister, Lincolns Inn in 2000. Had worked in gaining an LLB from the College of Law London as a Barrister. and being called to the Bar in 2007. Represented Medway and Kent schools Was UK Economist for the investment at cricket and is a keen runner. bank Warburgs and has also worked for the Conservative Party Policy Unit where he developed new policies Was a Councillor on Medway Council. for tackling youth crime and police governance. A former adviser to the former Prime Minister of , the late Was elected as a Medway Councillor representing Rochester West in Hon Ms , and the Rt Hon MP. May 2007. Elected as local MP in May 2010. Elected as local MP for Rochester & Strood in May 2010. Website says he has campaigned for more doctors and nurses at the Medway Maritime Hospital, and less bureaucracy within the NHS.

Tracey Crouch ‐ Chatham & Aylesford (Cons)

Graduated in Law at Hull University then worked in Parliament for various MPs including before leaving to become a political consultant.

In 2003 become Chief of Staff to the Shadow Education Secretary Damian Green, before moving to become Chief of Staff to the then Shadow David Davis.

Subsequently left Parliament to work for Norwich Union and its FTSE parent company Aviva.

Elected as local MP for Chatham & Aylesford in May 2010.

NHS WEST KENT

Michael Fallon ‐ Sevenoaks (Cons) ‐ Tunbridge Wells (Cons)

Was an Education Minister in the Studied Economics at Cambridge governments of and University. . Before entering politics worked for the Graduated with Honours MA in Classics Boston Consulting Group. Was Special and Ancient History from St Andrews Advisor to the Secretary of State for University. Trade & Industry from 1996 - 97. Was appointed the BBC's Controller, A former director of two companies - Commercial Policy. Quality Care Homes plc (nursing homes), and Just Learning Ltd (nurseries). Most Was Director of Policy for the recently non-executive director of Tullett Conservative Party. Prebon plc (inter-dealing broking) and Entered the Shadow Cabinet in October Attendo AB (Scandinavian social and 2008 (Shadow Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change), health care). Was also an adviser to the having previously been Shadow Minister for Charities, Social Social Market Foundation. Enterprise and Volunteering. Was formerly MP for Darlington from 1983 - 1992 in which time he Elected as local MP in May 2005. was Government Whip and Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Schools. Appointed Minister for Communities & Local Government, May 2010. Elected as MP for Sevenoaks in 1997 and served as an Opposition Frontbench Spokesman on Trade and Industry and Frontbench Treasury Spokesman.

Website reports: Michael led the campaign to save Sevenoaks Hospital, culminating in the May 2007 decision of West Kent Primary Care Trust to secure its long-term future.

Helen Grant ‐ Maidstone (Cons) ‐ Gravesham (Cons)

Took an active role in the NHS as a non- Educated at Cambridge University (MA executive director of the Croydon NHS Social and Political Science) and holds Primary Care Trust from January 2005 an MBA from Imperial College London. until 2007. Former Grenadier Guards Officer and Became under-16 Judo Champion in Television Reporter. Has worked for North of England and Southern . Newsnight, , and as an Obtained a law degree at the University of ITN Reporter. Was best known in Hull, undertook solicitors' finals at the television for his work as an undercover College of Law in and qualified reporter including a programme on living as a solicitor in 1988. In 1996 set up with schizophrenia. Grants Solicitors.

Has served on the . Founding member of the executive committee of the MASH He was formerly on the board of Christian Aid, and is now involved campaign, which aims to save Maidstone’s Hospital Services, and with a number of charities. she regularly meets with the Chairmen of the Maidstone Hospital Trust Board and their overseeing Primary Care Trust board. He was elected MP for Gravesham in May 2005. Her grandmother was a nursing sister, her father a doctor and orthopaedic surgeon, her mother a nurse and she has two sisters, one a doctor and the other a nurse. Helen was one of the authors of the Social Justice Policy Group Report 'State of the Nation - Fractured Families' published in December 2006 and the follow-up solutions report 'Breakthrough Britain' published in July 2007. Elected as local MP in May 2010 Has campaigned on maternity services in Maidstone

Sir John Stanley ‐ Tonbridge and Malling (Cons) ‐ Dartford (Cons)

Won a Trevelyan Scholarship to Lincoln A solicitor and former local councillor. College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He later studied at Syracuse Elected as MP for Dartford May 2010. University, USA.

In 1984 Sir John was made a Privy Counsellor, and in 1988 he was knighted. A Vice-President of Maidstone MENCAP and of the Kent Handicapped Caring Association. Before his election to Parliament he was a senior Financial Executive with Rio Tinto Zinc. He was formerly a Research Associate of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and has also been a member of the Conservative Party`s Research Department with responsibility for housing.

Was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Thatcher MP. Was Minister for Housing between 1979 and 1988, and has served as Minister for the Armed Forces and Minister of State for .

First elected as local MP in 1974.

NHS

Sam Gyimah ‐ Surrey East (Cons) Sir ‐ Mole Valley (Cons)

Born in Beaconsfield and educated at Born and grew up in New Zealand. Achimota Secondary School, , and Graduated in dentistry in New Zealand Freman College, Hertfordshire. Read and took a year’s postgraduate course at Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Eastman Dental Hospital. First Somerville College, Oxford. Was elected practised in the East End of London President of the Oxford Union. before moving to the West End. Started his career at Goldman Sachs. Was elected to Wandsworth Council in From 2003 was involved in developing a 1978. Held a number of posts including small businesses in the training, Chairman of Housing and Education employment and internet sectors. Commitees. Was leader of the Council from 1983 - 1992. In 2005 was voted CBI Entrepreneur of the Future. Was Chairman of the Bow Group and has been a local Association Knighted in January 1990 for his contribution to inner city Officer. rehabilitation. He has been a volunteer and fundraiser for Crisis and the Downs Elected MP for Croydon Central April 1992 Syndrome Association. He was a Minister in Department of the Environment from 1994 - Is a keen supporter of St Catherine’s Hospice which provides end-of- 1997. life respite care in Tandridge and Crawley. Has been MP for Mole Valley since May 1997. Elected as MP May 2010. Secretary to All-Party Parliamentary Dentistry Group 2008

Crispin Blunt ‐ (Cons) ‐ Surrey Heath (Cons)

Served as an army officer until 1990. Was Brought up in . His mother a self employed representative of Forum worked at Aberdeen School for the Deaf of Private Business and a Political and Aberdeen University. Consultant. Worked as a journalist before entering In 1993 was appointed as Special Adviser politics. Whilst at he joined to , the Secretary of State Frances Lawrence, widow of murdered for Defence, and worked in the same headmaster Philip Lawrence, to fight capacity when Malcolm Rifkind became street crime and its causes. between 1995 and 1997. Has been MP for Surrey Heath since May 2005. Elected MP for Reigate in 1997. Was Shadow Minister for Housing, and Shadow Secretary of State Was member of the All Party Parliamentary Compassion in Dying for Children, Schools and Families. Was also former Chairman of Group 2004. , a centre-right think tank.

Appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Appointed Secretary of State for Education, May 2010. Justice, May 2010.

Chris Grayling ‐ Epsom & Ewell (Cons) ‐ Runnymede and Weybridge (Cons)

Previously worked as a producer on BBC Went to Oxford to study Philosophy, News and Channel Four's programme Politics and Economics. Business Daily. First stood for Parliament in Newham Also worked a several production North East in 1994. Having been businesses before moving to the defeated in that by-election, he was Employee Change Communication elected in 1997 for the Surrey practice at international communications constituency of Runnymede and firm Burson Marsteller. Was European Weybridge. Marketing Director.

Before entering Parliament in 2001, he was a councillor on the London Borough of Merton. Was a Shadow Minister for Health from 1998 - 2001 Has been Shadow Health Minister, Shadow Leader of the House, Most recently served as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Shadow Secretary of State Appointed Secretary of State for Transport, May 2010. for Work and Pensions and Shadow Home Secretary.

Appointed Minister of State for Work & Pensions, May 2010.

Has actively campaigned on services at Epsom Hospital.

Jeremy Hunt ‐ Surrey South West (Cons) ‐ Woking (Cons)

Grew up in Surrey and went to Educated at Shrewsbury School, attended Kent Charterhouse School in Godalming. School, Connecticut, USA and read History at Merton College, Oxford, where he was Graduated from Oxford University with a President of the Oxford University Conservative first class honours degree in Politics, Association. Philosophy and Economics. Has a background in advertising, marketing Former management consultant who and technology and is a former Director of taught English in Japan for two years. Saatchi & Saatchi. Set up his own educational publishing He was Chairman of the neighbouring business, Hotcourses. Guildford Conservative Association for four Was elected as Member of Parliament for South West Surrey in years and was 's Campaign 2005. Manager in Guildford in 2005. In December 2005 appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People, Elected a Surrey County Councillor in June 2009, he keeps an where he successfully campaigned for the BBC to increase the interest in local health and hospital issues as an active member of amount of subtitling on its programmes. He also campaigned strongly Surrey's Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee. for simplification of the benefits system for disabled people and Has campaigned about the Royal Surrey County Hospital and has individual social care budgets. In July 2007 he was appointed to the pledged to focus on local acute services, Woking Community Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture Media and Hospital, and primary care services. Sport where he has campaigned for more philanthropy for the arts, local TV, superfast broadband, a schools Olympics and a strengthened domestic tourism industry.

Appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, May 2010.

Has actively campaigned on local HNS services including re Royal Surrey, Milford and Haslemere hospitals.

Anne Milton ‐ Guildford (Cons) ‐ Esher and Walton (Cons)

Trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Started his career as an international Hospital in London. Worked for the NHS lawyer at Linklaters working on project for 25 years and has a wide range of finance, international litigation and experience in the NHS. She has nursed competition law. He also spent time on in hospitals, worked as a district nurse, in secondments at Liberty and advising on research, and in supporting GPs and EU and WTO law. nurses working in palliative care. She also pioneered a scheme to look after Joined the Foreign & Commonwealth people who were sent home early from Office in 2000 and was posted to The hospital. Her last job in the NHS was to Hague to head up a new team focused on give medical advice to councils and bringing war criminals to justice. Has also housing associations. advised on the Arab-Israeli conflict, EU law and Gibraltar. Before being elected as MP for Guildford in 2005 she was a borough councillor for five years in Surrey. She was Conservative Group Leader and was Vice Chairman of the Conservative Medical Society. Left the FCO in 2006 to take up an appointment as Chief of Staff to the Shadow Home Secretary. Was appointed to the Health Select Committee in 2005 until she was made Shadow Minister for Tourism, Gambling and Licensing. Was Joined David Davis’ by-election campaign as Chief of Staff following appointed Shadow Minister for Health in 2007 with responsibility for his resignation from the House of Commons in June 2008. Worked policy on mental health, maternity services and healthcare as Chief of Staff to QC MP, Shadow Home then associated infections. Justice Secretary, advising on prisons, criminal justice and constitutional reform. Appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health, May 2010. Elected MP for Esher and Walton in May 2010. Has actively campaigned about services at the Royal Surrey County Hospital and community hospitals in Surrey.

Kwasi Kwarteng ‐ Spelthorne (Cons)

Parents were born in Ghana in the 1940s when it was still a British Colony and came to Britain in the 1960s as students.

Won a scholarship to at 13 years of age and read History at Trinity College, Cambridge. Earned a Bachelor's degree and a PhD in British History and was also on a series-winning team of

University Challenge. Worked as a company analyst in the City for seven years, and as a journalist.

Was Conservative Candidate for Brent East at the General Election of 2005, Chairman of the Bow Group in 2006 and a candidate for the London

Assembly in 2008. Elected as MP for Spelthorne May 2010.

He is currently writing a book, Ghosts of Empire, about the global legacy of the . This will be published next year.

Has pledged to campaign for local hospital services.

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Peter Bottomley ‐ (Cons) ‐ Bognor Regis and (Cons)

Educated at a mixed comprehensive Honours degree in law at Durham school in Washington DC, Westminster University. School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Was a Chartered Accountant with KPMG He is an industrial economist. specialising in corporate taxation. Has been Chairman of the Church of He is the author of numerous reports for England Children’s Society, a trustee of public policy think-tanks on tax reform Christian Aid and founded Family Forum. and economics. He is on the executive of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Was a Frontbench Spokesman on Trade Association. Has also been a member of and Industry matters 1999 - 2001. From the Child Poverty Action Group and May 2005 served as a Shadow Minister Transport House branch of the Transport for Education and for Schools. and General Workers’ Union. Was President of the Conservative Trade Unionists from 1978 - 1980. Was the Conservative candidate in the Rotherham by-election in 1994 and stood for Stoke-on-Trent Central in the 1992 General Contested West Woolwich in the general elections of 1974 and won Election. Was Treasurer and Chairman of Bethnal Green and the seat in June 1975. Elected as MP for Worthing in 1997. Stepney Conservative Association. Has served as Secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary In 1997 won the constituency of Bognor Regis & Littlehampton and Committee on Health and Social Services and Foreign and the same year was appointed to the Conservative Parliamentary Commonwealth Affairs. In September 1984 was Parliamentary Social Security Committee. Under-Secretary of State at the where his responsibilities included agriculture and the environment. Appointed Minister for Schools, May 2010. All party group - Patient and Public Involvement in Health Group Motor Neurone Disease Group 1999.

Has actively campaigned about hospital services in West Sussex.

Nick Herbert ‐ Arundel and South Downs (Cons) ‐ Worthing East & Shoreham (Cons)

Won an Open Exhibition to Magdalene Won BA First Class Honours in Classical College, Cambridge, where he read Law Civilisation at and and Land Economy. studied Mesopotamian Archaeology at Appointed Shadow Minister for Police Clare College, Cambridge. Reform in 1995. In July 2007 he was Was fund manager in the City of London promoted to the Shadow Cabinet with Montagu Loebl Stanley, and Director as Shadow Secretary of State at Fleming Private Asset Management. for Justice, and in 2009 was appointed Was also non-executive director of Shadow Secretary of State Netlink, an internet start-up company. for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Elected as MP for Worthing East and Shoreham in 1997. Worked for the British Field Sports Society, becoming its Director of Was Shadow Health Minister from 2001 - 2007. Has also been Political Affairs, and played a leading role in setting up the Shadow Children's Minister and Shadow Minister for Environment, Countryside Movement, which became the Countryside Alliance. Transport and the Regions Was the Director of Reform, think tank which he co- Was a member of the Environmental Audit Select Committee and the founded in 2002. European Standing Committee. From 1998 to 2000, was Chief Executive of Business for Sterling. In Has been Local Authority appointee to Wandsworth Community the 1997 General Election he stood as the Conservative Health Council, Vice Chairman Wandsworth Alcohol Group, Member Parliamentary candidate in Berwick Upon Tweed, one of the most Wandsworth Health Authority Substance Misuse Committee. rural seats in England. Appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department Has been MP for Arundel and South Downs since May 2005. for Education, May 2010. Appointed Minister for Police, May 2010 Patron of St Barnabas Hospice, Worthing and the League of Friends, Worthing Hospital as well as Trustee League of Friends, Chair: All-Party Tuberculosis Group 2006 Southlands Hospital, Shoreham. Is Vice Chairman of Cardiac Risk in the Young Group.

Has actively campaigned about hospital services in West Sussex.

Francis Maude ‐ Horsham (Cons) Henry Smith ‐ Crawley (Cons)

Practised at the criminal bar from 1977 - In 2005 Henry Smith co-authored Direct 1985 and was a councillor for the City of Democracy which argues for far greater Westminster from 1978 - 1984. devolution of real decision making power to people, locally elected bodies and Was elected as MP for North Parliament. in 1983 and was a PPS, Government Whip, Minister for Corporate Was the Leader of West Sussex County and Consumer Affairs at the Department Council from 2003 and was first elected of Trade and Industry, Minister of State at as a County Councillor for Crawley in Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and 1997. Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He was Governor at three Crawley Lost his seat at the 1992 election and in June that year was made a schools. Privy Counsellor.

Was appointed a non-executive Director of ASDA Group Plc in July Elected as MP for Crawley in May 2010. 1992. Was later Director of Salomon Brothers, a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co Ltd and Chairman of the Government's Has actively campaigned about services at Crawley hospital and for Deregulation Task Force. a new major hospital in the area including A&E services.

Elected as MP for Horsham in May 1997.

Has been Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Foreign Secretary. Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party in May 2005, then Shadow Minister for the , and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office and , May 2010. As a he became Vice-Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.

Nicholas Soames ‐ Mid Sussex (Cons) Andrew Tyrie ‐ Chichester (Cons)

After leaving school was commissioned Educated at Felsted School, Trinity into the 11th Hussars [PAO] and served College Oxford, the College of Europe in and the . Bruges and Wolfson College, Cambridge. Was subsequently Equerry to HRH The He is a former Woodrow Wilson scholar Prince of Wales KG KT GCB. and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Worked as a stockbroker before Previous work has included advisor to becoming Personal Assistant to Sir the then Chancellors of the Exchequer, . Also worked on the Nigel Lawson and John Major, and staff of a US Senator in Washington DC Senior Economist at the European Bank for two years and then joined a firm of for Reconstruction and Development. Lloyds Brokers as a Director. Elected MP for Chichester in 1997.

Has been an MP for 27 years and has represented Mid Sussex since 1997. Between 2003 and 2005 held the positions of Shadow Financial Secretary and Shadow Paymaster General. Served as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and as Minister of State for the Armed Forces. As a member of the Committee established after the expenses 2003 - 2005 served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and scandal to reform the House of Commons, he pressed for reform of as a member of the Shadow Cabinet. Parliament. Is also a member of the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Committee and has been Chairman of the Joint Committee on Tax After the 2005 General Election he stood down from the Shadow Law Rewrite Bills. Cabinet. Was a member of the Committee on Standards and Has actively campaigned about services at St Richard’s Hospital. Privileges, a member of the Defence Advisory Forum and President of the Conservative Middle East Council. Vice President - St Catherine’s Hospice and Patron of reMEmber (The Chronic Fatigue Society) He is a Trustee of the Amber Foundation and he sits on the Council of the Royal United Services Institute and the Court of the University of Sussex.

He is the grandson of Sir .