Neil Carmichael (Conservative politician)
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Neil Carmichael MP |
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| Chair of the Education Select Committee | |
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Assumed office 18 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Graham Stuart |
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Member of Parliament for Stroud |
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Assumed office 7 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | David Drew |
| Majority | 4,866 (8.0%) |
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15 April 1961 Hexham, Northumberland, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Website | www |
William Neil Carmichael (born 15 April 1961 in Hexham) is an English Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stroud constituency in Gloucestershire since the 2010 general election.
Carmichael began his political career after being elected to Northumberland County Council in 1989 on which he served four years, during this time he was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in the 1992 General Election in the seat of Leeds East.
In 1999 he moved to Gloucestershire where he was selected to stand for the Conservatives in the parliamentary seat of Stroud, losing to Labour in 2001 and in 2005.
Neil Carmichael won the seat of Stroud in the 2010 General Election, with a 2% swing to the Conservatives from Labour and a majority of 1,299.
On entering Parliament he made his maiden speech on 2 June 2010 and became a member of the Environmental Audit Committee, the task of whom is to monitor the worthiness of all government department activity from the perspective of cutting carbon emissions.
He has had a consistent interest in education; he had been a member of the Education Select Committee of the House of Commons with the duty to scrutinise the Department for Education and provide oversight on behalf of Parliament, before being elected as its chair in June 2015. Earlier, in 2011 he founded the All Party Group on Education, Governance and Leadership after coauthoring a report seeking to influence the reform of school governing boards. He proposed a bill on the issue under the Ten Minute Rule in late 2014 but it made no further progress.
In 2012, he founded the All Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular disease to raise awareness and encourages further research into vascular disease. As Chair of the group he co-authored reports which highlighted the regional differences in amputation rates throughout England and which found there could be over 5,000 unnecessary leg amputations a year . He also served as the Secretary of the Associate Parliamentary Health Group.
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