Nicholas Richard Ainger (born October 24, 1949, Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is a BritishLabourMember of Parliament for the constituency of Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South, and a CommonsWhip and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in the north of England. ... South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant elected branch of Parliament. ... In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...
Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Netherthorpe Grammar, Staveley, Derbyshire and after leaving education in 1977 became a dock worker at the Marine and Port Services of Pembroke Dock. He stayed in this position until 1992 when he was elected as the MP of Pembroke. Following a change of constituency boundaries, in the 1997 general election he successfully stood in Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South. Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in the north of England. ... For the village in Cumbria of the same name, see Staveley, Cumbria. ... Derbyshire (pronounced Dar-bee-shur) is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Pembroke Dock (Welsh: Doc Penfro) is a town in South Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying north of Pembroke at the end of Milford Haven. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ...
He and his wife Sally Ainger have one daughter.
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Nick Ainger MP official site
Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Nick Ainger
NickAinger: I am grateful to the Minister for her kind words, which were totally justified, about the effectiveness of the specialist treatment centres.
NickAinger: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when she expects the Government to ratify the (a) Convention on Hazardous and Noxious Substances 1996, (b) Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness and Co-operation/Hazardous and Noxious Substances 2000, (c) Anti-Fouling Convention and (d) Ballast and Water Management Convention; and if she will make a statement.
NickAinger: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of his Department's compliance with the Crichel Down rules in the disposal of 50 acres of land at East Blockhouse, Angle, Pembrokeshire on 27 March 2002.
Nicholas Richard Ainger (born October 24, 1949) is a British LabourMember of Parliament for the constituency of Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South, and since 2005 is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office.
Ainger was born in Sheffield in 1949, and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar in Staveley, Derbyshire and after leaving education in 1967 moved to Milford Haven and became a dock worker at the Marine and Port Services of Pembroke Dock.
He was a senior shop steward in the Transport and General Workers Union for fourteen years whilst at the docks, and became elected to the former Dyfed County Council, on which he served from 1981 until his election as the MP for Pembroke at the 1992 General Election.
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