Lord Knight of Weymouth Labour , Opposition Spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Most spoken phrases

Last updated 3rd Jun 2009

1. Israeli settlements
2. Northcote Road shops
3. Dangerous dogs petition
4. Clapham Junction tube
5. Heathrow expansion
6. Health services
7. Fly tipping

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Biography

• Born:

  6/3/1965 Jim Knight

• Positions

  PPS at Department of Health 2003-05: to Rosie Winterton as Minister of State 2003-04, Team PPS 2004-05; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2005-06; Minister of State: Department for Education and Skills/Children, Schools and Families (Schools and Learners) 2006-09, Department for Work and Pensions 2009-10; Minister for the South West 2009-10.

• Lords career

  Opposition Spokesperson for: Work and Pensions 2010-11, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2011-.

• Electoral history

  Contested South Dorset 1997 general election. MP for South Dorset 2001-10. Contested South Dorset 2010 general election.

• Political interests

  International development, families, arts, sport, housing, rural affairs.

• Party groups

  Various posts local constituency party 1990-.

• Countries of interest

  Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritania, USA.

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