Nick Gibb MP
Member of Parliament for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Incumbent
Assumed office  1 May 1997
Preceded by	Constituency created
Majority	7,822 (19.2%)
Born	3 September 1960 (1960-09-03) (age 47) Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Durham University

Nicolas John "Nick" Gibb MP (born September 3, 1960) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. As of December 2005 Gibb holds the post of Shadow Minister of State for Schools in Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... Bognor Regis and Littlehampton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Open seat redirects here. ... is the 121st day of the year (122nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Amersham (previously Agmondesham) is a market town 27 miles north west of London, in the Chiltern Hills, England. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. ... The Conservative Party, officially though less commonly known as the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Alma mater (disambiguation). ... Affiliations 1994 Group European University Association Association of MBAs EQUIS Universities UK N8 Group Association of Commonwealth Universities Website http://www. ... is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... The Conservative Party, officially though less commonly known as the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Bognor Regis and Littlehampton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Minister of State is a title borne by officials in certain countries governed under the parliamentary system. ... The Official Opposition (more formally, Her Majestys Loyal Opposition) in the United Kingdom is usually the largest political party or coalition which is not a member of the government (government, in this context, means the ministers of the executive and their supporters, rather than the whole apparatus of the...

Nick Gibb was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and was educated at the Maidstone Grammar School, Kent; the Roundhay School, Leeds; and the Thornes House School, Wakefield. He then attended the College of St Hild and St Bede at the University of Durham where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in law in 1981. Amersham (previously Agmondesham) is a market town 27 miles north west of London, in the Chiltern Hills, England. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. ... Maidstone Grammar School (MGS) is a Grammar school located in Maidstone, United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... , Roundhay is one of the better known of Leedss suburbs. ... For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation) and Leeds City (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ... College of St Hild and St Bede Durham University Named after The Venerable Bede & St Hild Established 1975 (precursors in 1839 and 1858) Principal Dr Alan Pearson Senior Tutor Mrs C A Carr SRC President Lewis Black Undergraduates 1123 Postgraduates 111 Website College of St Hild and St Bede SRC... Affiliations 1994 Group European University Association Association of MBAs EQUIS Universities UK N8 Group Association of Commonwealth Universities Website http://www. ... B. A. redirects here. ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ...

In 1982 he joined NatWest as a trainee accountant, before working on Kibbutz Merom Golam in 1983. From 1984 he was employed by KPMG as a chartered accountant until his election to parliament. The Classic NatWest logo National Westminster Bank Plc, trading as NatWest, is a commercial bank in the United Kingdom, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ... Kibbutz Merom Golan as seen from Bental mountain A Kibbutz (Hebrew: Translit. ... KPMG is one of the largest professional services firms in the world. ... Chartered Accountant (CA) is the title used by members of certain professional accountancy associations in the British Commonwealth countries and Ireland. ... “Houses of Parliament” redirects here. ...

He worked as an election agent to Cecil Parkinson at the 1987 General Election, and became the secretary of the Bethnal Green and Stepney Conservative Association in 1988, becoming its chairman the following year. He contested Stoke-on-Trent Central at the 1992 General Election but was defeated into second place some 13,420 votes behind the sitting Labour MP Mark Fisher. Following the death of James Boyce on January 25, 1994, he was selected to contest the 1994 Rotherham by-election held on May 5, 1994. He finished in third place, 12,263 votes behind the winner Denis MacShane. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for the newly created West Sussex seat of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. Gibb won the seat with a majority of 7,321 and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on July 4, 1997 [1], in which he spoke of the visit of King George V in 1929 to Bognor Regis to take in the sea air, hence the suffix of Regis on the town's name. He recalled also the town of Felpham which was the home of poet William Blake. Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (born 1 September 1931 in Carnforth, Lancashire), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister. ... Margaret Thatcher David Steel Election 1987 Titles The United Kingdom general election of 1987 was held on 11 June 1987 and was the third consecutive victory for the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Stoke-on-Trent Central is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... Mark Fisher (born 29 October 1944) is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent for the Labour Party. ... James Boyce (September 6, 1947 - January 25, 1994), known as Jimmy Boyce, was a British Labour politician. ... is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... This is a list of UK by-elections, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. ... is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Denis MacShane (born May 21, 1948, Glasgow) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... Type Lower House Speaker Michael Martin, (Non-affiliated) since October 23, 2000 Leader Harriet Harman, (Labour) since June 28, 2007 Shadow Leader Theresa May, (Conservative) since May 5, 2005 Members 659 Political groups Labour Party Conservative Party Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Plaid Cymru Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Féin... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... , Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. ... A 1947 Ordnance Survey map, showing Bognor Regis with Felpam to the right Felpham (sometimes pronounced locally as Felf-ham) is a village in West Sussex. ... For other persons named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). ...

He joined the frontbench of William Hague in 1997 when he was appointed as the spokesman on trade and industry, before joining the social security select committee later in the year. The following year, in 1998 he rejoined the frontbench as a spokesman on the treasury, moving back to trade and industry in 1999. He was briefly a spokesman on environment, transport and the regions following the 2001 General Election but resigned under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith. Michael Howard brought him back to the frontbench following the 2005 General Election, since when he has been a spokesman on education. Following the election of David Cameron he was promoted within the education team to shadow Minister for Schools. In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together. ... William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and current Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary. ... The Department of Trade and Industry is a United Kingdom government department. ... The Department of Social Security (DSS) was until 2001 a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. ... A Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy. ... The new eastern entrance to HM Treasury HM Treasury, in full Her Majestys Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the UK Governments financial and economic policy. ... The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions was a UK Cabinet position created in 1997, with responsibility for the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions. ... Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... Rt. ... The Rt Hon. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ... For the Canadian ice hockey player, see Dave Cameron. ...

He is the brother of Robbie Gibb, a former spin doctor who now works on BBC political programmes. He is a longstanding advocate of synthetic phonics as a method of teaching children to read, and enjoys long-distance running. He is also a supporter of the motor neurone disease cause. In public relations, spin is a usually pejorative term signifying a heavily biased portrayal in ones own favor of an event or situation that is designed to bring about the most positive result possible. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... This article is about movement. ... The motor neurone diseases (MND) are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing. ...

Publications

• Forgotten Closed Shop: Case for Voluntary Membership of Student Unions by Nicholas Gibb and David Neil-Smith, 1985, Cleveland Press ISBN 0-948194-01-4
• Simplifying Taxes by Nick Gibb, 1987
• Duty to Repeal by Nick Gibb, 1989, Adam Smith Institute ISBN 1-870109-71-6
• Bucking the Market by Nick Gibb, 1990
• Maintaining Momentum by Nick Gibb, 1992

External links

• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Nick Gibb MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Nick Gibb MP
• The Public Whip - Nick Gibb MP voting record
• BBC News - Nick Gibb MP BBC profile