Stephen Timms elected as Chair of Work and Pensions Select Committee

Thursday 30 January, 2020 Written by Wikipedia/Simon Collyer

WESTMINSTER - Stephen Creswell Timms (born 29 July 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham since 1997. He has sat in Parliament since retaining the earlier Newham North East seat for his party at a 1994 by-election. Timms served in the government for several periods as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, from 1999 to 2001, 2004 to 2005, and 2008 to 2010.

He was also in the Cabinet from 2006 to 2007 as the Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2006 to 2007. In May 2010, Timms survived an attempted murder by Islamic terrorist Roshonara Choudhry who stabbed him twice in the abdomen at his constituency surgery. His attacker was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

He returned to the backbenches in September 2015, after being offered a junior shadow Treasury job by his party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Timms has been Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform at the DWP.

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