Paddy Tipping
| Paddy Tipping | |
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| Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner | |
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Assumed office 15 November 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Deputy Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 28 March 2007 – 28 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Leader | Jack Straw |
| Preceded by | Nigel Griffiths |
| Succeeded by | Helen Goodman |
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In office 23 December 1998 – 11 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Leader |
Margaret Beckett Robin Cook |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Twigg |
| Member of Parliament for Sherwood |
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In office 10 April 1992 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Mark Spencer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 October 1949 Halifax, West Yorkshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
Simon Patrick Tipping (born 24 October 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who is the current Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Sherwood constituency from 1992 until 2010.
Tipping was born in Halifax. He went to Hipperholme Grammar School (when a state school) in Hipperholme. At the University of Nottingham, he gained a BA in Philosophy in 1972 and an MA in Social Sciences in 1978. He was a social worker in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire from 1972 until 1979. Between 1979 and 1983 he was a Project Leader for the (Church of England) Children's Society in Nottingham. From 1981 to 1993 he was a Councillor on Nottinghamshire County Council.
Tipping contested Rushcliffe in 1987. He took Sherwood from the Conservatives in 1992.
Tipping served in a number of junior government positions, becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Secretary Jack Straw in 1997. In 1999 he was then promoted to Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Privy Council Office, where he was responsible for dealing with issues relating to the year 2000 computer date problem. Following this, Tipping became Chairman of the sub-committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2001 and, after a period on the backbenches, in 2006 he again served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jack Straw.
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