Tim Loughton MP FSA |
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Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee Acting |
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In office 6 September 2016 – 19 October 2016 |
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Preceded by | Keith Vaz |
Succeeded by | Yvette Cooper |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families | |
In office 13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Succeeded by | Edward Timpson |
Member of Parliament for East Worthing and Shoreham |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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Preceded by | Constituency Created |
Majority | 14,949 (30.0%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Eastbourne, Sussex, England |
30 May 1962
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Juliet MacLauchlan |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater |
University of Warwick Clare College, Cambridge |
Religion |
Church of England |
Timothy Paul Loughton, FSA (born 30 May 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham since the 1997 general election. Loughton was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families from 2010-2012. In September 2016, Loughton was confirmed as the Acting Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee following the resignation of Keith Vaz.
Loughton was born on 30 May 1962 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. From 1973 to 1980, he was educated at Priory School, a state grammar school in Lewes, East Sussex. From 1980 to 1983, he studied classical civilisation at the University of Warwick. There, he was secretary of the University of Warwick Conservative Association. He graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree 1983. He then joined Clare College, University of Cambridge, where he studied Mesopotamian archaeology between 1983 and 1984.
Loughton followed a career in the City of London as a fund manager from 1984 for Fleming Private Asset Management, becoming a director from 1992-2000.