Simon Burns
Simon Burns MP Parliamentary CV
1. Member of Parliament
1987 - 1997 Chelmsford
1997 - present West Chelmsford
2. Parliamentary Private Secretary
1989 - 1993 Rt Hon Tim Eggar MP, Minister of State at the Department of Employment, Education and Trade and Industry
1993 - 1994 Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP, Minster of Agriculture
3. Ministerial career
1994 - 1995 Assistant Government Whip
1995 - 1996 Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
1996 - 1997 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health
4. Select Committees
2007 - 2008 Committee of Selection
2006 - present Administration Committee
2006 - 2008 Armed Forces Bill Select Committee
2000 - 2001 Public Accounts Committee
1999 - 2005 Health Select Committee
5. 1992 Committee
1999 - Executive Committee Member
1999 - 2001 Treasurer
6. Opposition Shadow Minister
1997 - 1998 Social Security
1998 - 1999 Environment
2001 - 2005 Health
7. Opposition Whip’s Office
2005 - present Opposition Whip
Latest Press Releases
- Simon Burns MP relieved Boreham Airfield is not to be a site of a new Government Prison
- Simon Burns MP concerned at the level of young people under 16 years old who commit crimes and are sent to prison
- Simon Burns MP raises concerns at the rise in the conviction rate in Essex for acts of vandalism and criminal damage
- Simon Burns MP is saddened by fall in manufacturing jobs in Chelmsford over the last ten years
- Simon Burns MP welcomes the increase in apprenticeships in Chelmsford and Essex over the last five years
- Concern raised over Government cuts to local schools and colleges
- Simon Burns MP concerned at cut in funding for 6th Form Schools and Colleges in Chelmsford
- Simon Burns MP receives letter from Transport Minister about increased rail capacity on the Chelmsford to Liverpool Street line
- Simon Burns MP expresses concern at significant drop in notified job vacancies in Chelmsford
- Simon Burns MP endorses Stop the Clot campaign
Latest Speeches
- Debate on Railways
- Debate on emergency care in house of commons
- Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties), 2006 International Tropical Timber Agreement, Order 2008
- Member’s Constituency Correspondence (Confidentiality), House of Commons, 5th November 2008
- NHS 60th Anniversary – opposition day debate
- Runaway and Misisng Children Bill
- Anti-Semitism
- Speech on the A12 in the House of Common
- Access to the Post Office - 3rd April 2008
- Small Pharmacies (Chelmsford)
Latest Articles
- Westminster View
- Westminster View: 16th April 2009
- Westminster View: Honest Food Campaign
- On the House: Veterans' Meeting March 2009
- Westminster View: Save the Great British Pub
- Book Review – 'Last Lion: The Fall And Rise Of Ted Kennedy'
- Westminster View: Control Shift – Conservative decentralisation proposals. 12th March 2009
- On the House: Helen Rollason. February 2009
- Westminster View: Conservative Rail Review - 19th February 2009
- Westminster View: On the streets with the Street Pastors - 12th February 2009
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