Mark Simmonds
| Mark Simmonds | |
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 5 September 2012 – 11 August 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Bellingham |
| Succeeded by | James Duddridge |
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Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness |
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In office 7 June 2001 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Richard Body |
| Succeeded by | Matt Warman |
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12 April 1964 Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lizbeth Hanomancin Garcia |
| Alma mater | Trent Polytechnic |
| Website | www.marksimmonds.org |
Mark Jonathon Mortlock Simmonds (born 12 April 1964) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire, and was first elected in 2001, succeeding Sir Richard Body. He was re-elected in 2005 with a greatly increased majority before his subsequent re-election in 2010 - more than doubling his 2005 majority.
In September 2012 he was appointed to the Government as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. On 11 August 2014 he resigned this post and confirmed that he would step down as an MP at the 2015 general election.
In October 2015, he was appointed Non-Executive Director of AIM-listed vertically integrated fertiliser company, African Potash.
Born in Worksop, Simmonds went to Worksop College, then Trent Polytechnic, where he obtained a BSc (Hons) degree in Urban Estate Surveying in 1986. He became an Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1987. He worked as a surveyor for Savills from 1986 to 1988 and was a partner in Strutt & Parker from 1988 to 1996. He was a Director of Hillier Parker from 1997 to 1999 and a Chairman of Mortlock Simmonds Brown from 1999 until becoming an MP for Boston and Skegness.
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