Born
05.02.1950 in
London.
Studied in MIT, Copenhagen and
London University, and has a PhD in Mathematics,
leading to a career in IT. Before entering
Parliament he ran the Intranet department
for a multinational company.
Nick has been the MP for
Broxtowe since 1997. He has been a member of
the Treasury, European and Northern Ireland
Select Committees.
He is one of the three
national patrons of Cats' Protection and an
honorary life member of the League Against
Cruel Sports. He belongs to numerous
international development and animal welfare
campaigns. He is currently Parliamentary
Private Secretary to the Energy Minister,
Malcolm Wicks. (Note that this means that he
is by House of Commons convention
unfortunately not allowed to sign Early Day
Motions, as these are restricted to
backbench MPs.)
Among his achievements have
been the proposal adopted by Gordon Brown to
make TV licences free from age 75+, the
reversal of the threatened open-cast mining
project in our area, the pioneering work on
the technology and use of ID cards, getting
government approval for the year-long
extension to local hospital restructuring,
preventing the need for hundreds of
redundancies in 2006, and a wide variety of
local campaigns.
He married Fiona Hunter in
2000.
