John Cummings (politician)
| John Cummings | |
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| Member of Parliament for Easington |
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In office 12 June 1987 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Jack Dormand |
| Succeeded by | Grahame Morris |
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John Scott Cummings 6 July 1943 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, U.K. |
| Died | 4 January 2017 (aged 73) Durham, England, U.K. |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
John Scott Cummings (6 July 1943 – 4 January 2017) was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Easington from 1987 until 2010.
Cummings was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, a fifth generation coal miner. He was educated at the Murton Council Infant and Junior schools on Watt Street and Secondary school. He attended both the Easington Technical College and the Durham Technical College until 1962. He began his career with the National Coal Board as a miner in 1958, becoming a pit electrician from 1967 until his election to parliament twenty years later. He was elected as councillor to the Easington District Council in 1970, was its chairman 1975-1976, and its leader from 1979 until he stepped down in 1987. He was a member of the Northumbrian Water Authority and the Peterlee and Newton Aycliffe Development Corporation. He was a trade unionist with the National Union of Mineworkers and was a trustee for the union from 1986-2000.
He first entered the House of Commons after the 1987 General Election as the Labour MP for Easington following the retirement of Jack Dormand, being elected with a majority of 24,639. In parliament he became a member of the Environment Select Committee from 1990 until he was promoted to become an Opposition Whip by Tony Blair in 1995. However, he was sacked after the 1997 General Election and did not serve in government. He again joined the environment select committee (in its various guises of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Transport, Local Government and the Regions). He was a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairmen from 2000 and served on the select committee of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister from 2002.
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