Members Of Parliament in Ashington, Wimborne, Dorset - Bournemouth Echo

MPs: Annette Brooke OBE MP; William of Dartmouth MEP;

Mid Dorset and North Poole (House of Commons)

Ms Annette Brooke OBE MP (Liberal Democrat)

Surgery Tel: 01202 693555

MP Since - 2001 Majority - 269 Born - 07/06/1947, Married, 2 daughters.
Education - Romford Technical School, London School of Economics (BSc Econ), Hughes Hall Cambridge (Certificate in Education).
Previous Occupation - Teacher - Economics and Social Sciences. Open University, and more recently Economics Teacher, Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth. Business Partner - family business - specialist geological consultancy trading in rocks and minerals.
Personal Overview - Moved out of her former teaching career in the mid-nineties to concentrate on her political and business interests. Strong local links helped her successful campaign, and stem in large part from her active and senior membership of the local council. Given her triumph over one-term Conservative Christopher Fraser she will be welcomed warmly by her Lib Dem colleagues in the House, and with her experience in Education, and to a lesser extent Planning, she was found a spokesman's role in short order. Politically she has been motivated by a desire to improve equality of opportunity, whether on gender, race, disability or age grounds. On the last area of age she was strangely rather unforthcoming in revealing her own date of birth, so whether the activity is in anyway self-interested is a matter of speculation. Initially decided to continue her local government activity on Poole BC following her Westminster election, currently her husband remains a member of the Council.
Political History - Councillor, Poole BC (1986-2003), Chair, Planning Committee (1991-96), Education Committee (1996-2000), Environmental Strategy Working Party (1995-97), Executive Member for Education (2000-01), Deputy Group Leader (1995-97, 1998-2000), Group Leader (2000-01), Member for Mid Dorset & North Poole (2001-). Member of the Public Administration Select Committee (2001-05). Home Affairs Spokesman (2001-04). Shadow Minister for Education (2005-06) (Children & The Family). Shadow Minister for Children, Young People and Families (2007), Shadow Minister for Children, Schools and Familes (2007-10). Member of the Procedure Select Committee (2005-06), member of the Public Accounts Committee (2006-08). Member of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee (2007-10). Member of the Standards & Privileges Select Committee (2010-).
Characteristics - School Governor, and a Board Member of Dorset Careers Service. RSPB Member.

Business Tel: 020 7219 8193

Email: brookea@parliament.uk

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Commitee membership

• Standards & Privileges Committee (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adoption and Fostering (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experimentation (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Asthma (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Balanced and Sustainable Communities Group (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Brain Tumours (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer (Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Child Protection (Treasurer)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Childcare (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Chronic Pain (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic and Sexual Violence (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eye Health and Visual Impairment (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fatherhood (Secretary)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education for All (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Health and Safety Group (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Home Safety Group (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Huntington's Disease (Member)
• Libraries Group (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Looked after Children and Care Leavers (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Maternity (Treasurer)
• All-Party Parliamentary Methodist Group (Secretary)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microfinance (Chairman)
• Mobile Homes Group (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Motor Neurone Disease (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Multiple Sclerosis (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) (Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Private Rented Sector (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults (Secretary)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sex Equality (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Social Science and Policy (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Stroke (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vaccine Damaged People (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular Disease (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Peru (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Poland (Member)
• Republic of Sudan and South Sudan (Associate Group) (Member)

South West (European Parliament)

Earl William of Dartmouth MEP (UK Independence)

MEP Since - 2009 Born - 23/09/49. 10th Earl of Dartmouth.
Education - Eton. Christchurch College, Oxford. Harvard Business School.
Previous Occupation - Chartered Accountant, working in the United Arab Emirates (1975-77). Worked in the US for 6 years before returning to work in the UK in 1983 in finance, property and communications. Director, Hanson Transport. Chairman and Founder of Kirklees Cable.

Personal Overview - Former Conservative Peer who defected to the UK Independence party successfully gained election to the European Parliament at the 2009 elections. From a background in accountancy, he has worked in several countries, including the United Arab Emirates and US. A former Hereditary Peer, he lost his seat in the House of Lords in November 1999 in the Lords reforms of that year. Having reinvented himself as a UK Independence member he has the opportunity to use his accountancy skills to highlight any financial issues within the EU.

Political History - General Election candidate (Conservative) for Leigh (February 1974), Stockport South (October 1974). Succeeded his father to became a member of the House of Lords (1997-99). European Parliament candidate (1999). Joined the UK Independence Party (2007). Current prospective parliamentary candidate for Exeter. MEP South West Region (2009-). Member of the Committee on International Trade (2009-). Substitute member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Other Information - At Oxford he was elected Secretary of the Oxford Union.
Intergroups - N/a.

Business Tel: 32(0)2 28 49735

Email: william.dartmouth@europarl.europa.eu

Interests: Business & Finance

Commitee membership

• Foreign Affairs (Substitute)
• International Trade (Member)

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