Andrew Miller | |
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Member of Parliament for Ellesmere Port and Neston |
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In office 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015 |
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Preceded by | Mike Woodcock |
Succeeded by | Justin Madders |
Majority | 4,331 (9.8%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Isleworth, Middlesex, England |
23 March 1949
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Fran Miller |
Alma mater | University of Portsmouth |
Andrew Peter Miller (born 23 March 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Neston from 1992 to 2015.
Born in Isleworth, Middlesex, Miller was educated in Malta before attending the Hayling Island Secondary School (now known as The Hayling College) on Church Road, Hampshire and the Highbury Technical College (now known as Highbury College) on Dovercourt Road in Portsmouth. He went on to study at the London School of Economics where he was awarded a diploma in industrial relations in 1977. He worked initially as a laboratory technician at the Department of Geology at Portsmouth Polytechnic from 1967 and from 1977 an official of the MSF trade union.
Miller was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election when he won Ellesmere Port and Neston for Labour from the Conservatives. The sitting MP, Mike Woodcock retiring that year. In Parliament, Miller has served on numerous select committees and served for four years from 2001 to the ministers at the Department of Trade and Industry.