Paddy Tipping
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Paddy Tipping | |
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Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire Police |
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Assumed office 15 November 2012 |
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Preceded by | Office Created |
Deputy Leader of the House of Commons | |
In office 28 March 2007 – 28 June 2007 |
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Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Leader | Jack Straw |
Preceded by | Nigel Griffiths |
Succeeded by | Helen Goodman |
In office 23 December 1998 – 11 June 2001 |
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Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Leader | Margaret Beckett Robin Cook |
Succeeded by | Stephen Twigg |
Member of Parliament for Sherwood |
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In office 10 April 1992 – 12 April 2010 |
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Preceded by | Andrew Stewart |
Succeeded by | Mark Spencer |
Personal details | |
Born | Halifax, West Yorkshire |
24 October 1949
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
Simon Patrick Tipping (born 24 October 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who is the current Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire Police. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sherwood constituency from 1992 to 2010.
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Early life
Tipping was born in Halifax. He went to Hipperholme Grammar School (when a state school) in Hipperholme. At the University of Nottingham, he gained a BA in Philosophy in 1972 and an MA in Social Sciences in 1978. He was a social worker in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire from 1972-1979. From 1979-1983, he was a Project leader for the (C of E) Children's Society in Nottingham. From 1981 to 1993 he was a Nottinghamshire County Councillor.
Parliamentary career
Tipping contested Rushcliffe in 1987. He took Sherwood from the Conservatives in 1992.
Tipping served in a number of junior government positions, becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Secretary Jack Straw in 1997. In 1999 he was then promoted to Deputy Leader of the House of Commons[1][2][3] and appointed a junior minister at the Privy Council office, where he was responsible for overseeing millennium bug preparedness. Tipping became Chairman of the sub-committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2001 and, after a short period on the back benches, in 2006 he again served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jack Straw.
On 23 October 2009, Tipping announced his decision to stand down at the next general election, following ill-health.[4]
Police and Crime Commissioner
Tipping was elected as Nottinghamshire's Police and Crime Commissioner in the 2012 inaugural PCC election. He announced plans to pay a "pension" to cover medical bills etc. for retired police dogs, a move which dog handlers welcomed.[5]
Tipping was re-elected for a second-term on 6 May 2016.[6]
Personal life
He is Vice-President of the Ramblers Association. He married Irene Margaret Quinn on 8 January 1970 in Nottingham. They have two daughters. He suffered a heart attack in June 2009.
References
- ↑ TheyWorkForYou
- ↑ Government Exchange, Centre for Parliamentary Studies
- ↑ Ministerial Departures since 1997, House of Commons Library
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External links
- Official Website for Paddy's Police Commissioner Campaign
- Official Website on ePolitix
- Guardian Unlimited Politics — Ask Aristotle: Paddy Tipping MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com — Paddy Tipping MP
- Paddy Tipping is my MP — Blog tracking the activities of Paddy Tipping, the MP for Sherwood.
- BBC Politics Profile
- Expenses claims repaid
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- Labour Party (UK) MPs
- Members of Nottinghamshire County Council
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1992–97
- UK MPs 1997–2001
- UK MPs 2001–05
- UK MPs 2005–10
- Police and crime commissioners in England
- Alumni of the University of Nottingham
- People from Halifax, West Yorkshire