Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey. November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ... 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. ... Surrey East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

The son of a naval officer, he was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham; Bradfield College and Lincoln College, Oxford, from where in 1979 he obtained a degree in English. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... Location within the British Isles Wokingham is a small town in Berkshire (population 30,403 according to the 2001 census) in the south east of England, close to Reading. ... Bradfield College is a public school located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. ... College name Lincoln College Named after Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln Established 1427 Sister College Downing College Rector Prof. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

On leaving university he became a researcher to the former Conservative Member of the European Parliament, Sir John Stewart-Clark and in 1981 became a merchant banker. Also in 1981 he married Claire Burnett and they have a son and two daughters. He was elected as a councillor to the London Borough of Wandsworth in 1986. He was elected at the 1992 General Election for Surrey East on the retirement of the sitting veteran MP, Sir Geoffrey Howe from the House of Commons. A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In banking, a merchant bank is a United Kingdom term for an Investment Bank. ... The London Borough of Wandsworth is a London borough in southwest London. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ... Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, KBE, QC, CH, PC (born December 20, 1926), usually known until 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ...

In 1994 he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Jonathan Aitken, and in 1995 became PPS to the Secretary of State for National Heritage, Virginia Bottomley. He was promoted by John Major in 1996 to the Whips' Office, but the Major government fell the following year. He remained a Whip in Opposition and was promoted to Chief Whip under William Hague. In 1998 he entered the Shadow Cabinet, shadowing the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and from 2001 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Ainsworth resigned from Iain Duncan Smith's frontbench for family reasons in 2002. From 2003 he chaired the Environmental Audit Select Committee, before rejoining the Shadow Cabinet under David Cameron in December 2005 as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a junior position in the British Cabinet. ... Jonathan Aitken (born August 30, 1942) is a former Conservative minister, and convicted perjurer. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ... The Right Honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC (born March 12, 1948), née Virginia Garnett, is a British Conservative Party politician. ... The Right Honourable Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 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. ... William Hague The Right Honourable William Jefferson Hague (born March 26, 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire and a former leader of the Conservative Party. ... 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The current Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet is listed below. ... The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) is a department of the British government. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities. ... Iain Duncan Smith The Right Honourable George Iain Duncan Smith (born April 9, 1954) is a British politician. ... In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Select Committee of the British Parliament is a committee made up of a small number of members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues. ... David Cameron MP David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician, Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of Her Majestys Loyal Opposition, in the House of Commons, since December 6th, 2005. ... The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK cabinet-level position in charge of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the succesor to the positions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Secretary of State for the Environment. ...

External links

• Peter Ainsworth official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Peter Ainsworth
• They Work For You - Peter Ainsworth MP
• The Public Whip - Peter Ainsworth MP voting record
• BBC News - Peter Ainsworth profile 10 February, 2005