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Sir Stephen Timms

Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP

Labour · East Ham · E12 6SL

Key facts

Party Labour (Lab)
ConstituencyEast Ham
First elected9 June 1994
ResultLab Hold
GenderM
Emailtimmss@parliament.uk
Phone020 7219 4000
Websitehttp://www.stephentimms.org.uk

Election results

Results for East Ham at the most recent general election.

Stephen Timms
Labour 19570 51.6%
Tahir Mirza
Independent 6707 17.7%
Rosie Pearce
Green Party 4226 11.2%
Maria Higson
Conservative 3876 10.2%
Daniel Oxley
Reform UK 1340 3.5%
Hillary Briffa
Liberal Democrat 1210 3.2%
Anand Kumar Sundar
Independent 578 1.5%
Sathish Mohan Ramadoss
Independent 385 1.0%

Government posts

PostFromTo
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) 8 July 2024 Present
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) (Digital Britain) (also HM Treasury) 6 August 2009 6 May 2010
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) (also in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) 5 October 2008 6 May 2010
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Employment and Welfare Reform) 25 January 2008 5 October 2008
Minister of State (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) (Competitiveness) 2 July 2007 25 January 2008
Chief Secretary to the Treasury 5 May 2006 28 June 2007
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) 10 May 2005 5 May 2006
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) 30 September 2004 10 May 2005
Minister of State (e-Commerce & Competitiveness) 29 May 2002 9 September 2004
Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Schools) 11 June 2001 28 May 2002
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) 29 July 1999 7 June 2001
Minister of State (Department of Social Security) 1 January 1999 29 July 1999
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security) 28 July 1998 30 December 1998

Opposition posts

PostFromTo
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) 8 October 2010 18 September 2015
Shadow Financial Secretary 12 May 2010 8 October 2010
Shadow Minister (Digital Britain) 12 May 2010 8 October 2010

Committees

CommitteeFromTo
Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill 1 January 1929 1 February 1929
Consolidation etc. Bills (Joint Committee) 27 June 1994 21 March 1997
Treasury Committee 15 January 1996 21 March 1997
Public Accounts Committee 18 October 2004 12 July 2005
Public Accounts Committee 3 November 1999 11 May 2001
Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) 12 January 2009 6 May 2010
Education Committee 1 February 2016 31 October 2016
Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee 1 February 2016 31 October 2016
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union 11 September 2017 6 November 2019
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union 31 October 2016 3 May 2017
Work and Pensions Committee 29 January 2020 30 May 2024
Ecclesiastical Committee 4 March 2020 30 May 2024
Liaison Committee (Commons) 20 May 2020 30 May 2024
Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill 15 December 2021 5 January 2022
Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill 1 February 2023 8 February 2023
Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill 1 May 2024 8 May 2024

Constituencies represented

ConstituencyFromTo
East Ham Present
East Ham Present
East Ham Present
Newham North East Present

Party affiliations

PartyFromTo
Labour 9 June 1994 Present