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COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEES WORK AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE April 2020 Chair profile Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP [email protected] Labour / East Ham – Intake 1994 (by-election) Under the last Labour government, Stephen Timms held a number of ministerial posts including Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury as well as a DWP Minister. During Ed Miliband’s leadership, Mr Timms was re-appointed Shadow DWP Minister for five years. He was also a member of the committee for Exiting the EU from 2016 to 2019. Member profiles Shaun Bailey MP Siobhan Baillie MP Conservative / West Bromwich West – Intake 2019 Conservative / Stroud – Intake 2019 [email protected] [email protected] Selaine Saxby MP Neil Coyle MP Conservative / North Devon – Intake 2019 Labour / Bermondsey and Old Southwark – Intake 2015 [email protected] [email protected] Debbie Abrahams MP Nigel Mills MP Labour / Oldham East and Saddleworth – Conservative / Amber Valley – Intake 2010 Intake 2011 (by-election) [email protected] [email protected] Dr Ben Spencer MP Steve McCabe MP Conservative / Runnymede and Weybridge – Intake 2019 Labour / Birmingham, Selly Oak – Intake 1997 [email protected] [email protected] Rt Hon Sir Desmond Swayne MP Chris Stephens MP Conservative / New Forest West – Intake 1997 SNP / Glasgow South West – Intake 2015 [email protected] [email protected] Committee email address: [email protected] Phone: 020 7219 8976 Anne-Marie Griffiths, Clerk: [email protected] Stuart Ramsay, Second Clerk: [email protected] Jessica Bridges-Palmer, Senior Media and Policy Officer: [email protected] The Investment Association Camomile Court, 23 Camomile Street, London, EC3A 7LL www.theia.org @InvAssoc.

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