Stephen Timms

Sir Stephen Creswell Timms (born 29 July 1955) is a British politician who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2006 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham, formerly Newham North East, since 1994.

Stephen Timms
Official portrait, 2020
Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee
Assumed office
29 January 2020
Preceded byFrank Field
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
5 May 2006  28 June 2007
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byDes Browne
Succeeded byAndy Burnham
Shadow portfolios
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Acting
8 June 2015  13 September 2015
LeaderHarriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded byRachel Reeves
Succeeded byOwen Smith
Shadow Minister for Employment
In office
8 October 2010  13 September 2015
LeaderEd Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded byMark Hoban
Succeeded byEmily Thornberry
Junior ministerial offices
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Britain
In office
6 August 2009  11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
5 October 2008  11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byJane Kennedy
Succeeded byMark Hoban
In office
12 September 2004  6 May 2005
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byRuth Kelly
Succeeded byJohn Healey
In office
29 July 1999  8 June 2001
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byBarbara Roche
Succeeded byPaul Boateng
Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform
In office
25 January 2008  3 October 2008
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byCaroline Flint
Succeeded byTony McNulty
Minister of State for Competitiveness
In office
2 July 2007  25 January 2008
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byPosition re-established
Succeeded byThe Baroness Vadera
In office
29 May 2002  9 September 2004
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byDouglas Alexander
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Minister of State for Pensions
In office
6 May 2005  5 May 2006
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byMalcolm Wicks
Succeeded byJames Purnell
In office
23 December 1998  29 July 1999
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byJohn Denham
Succeeded byJeff Rooker
Minister of State for Schools
In office
11 June 2001  24 October 2002
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byEstelle Morris
Succeeded byDavid Miliband
Member of Parliament
for East Ham
Newham North East (1994–1997)
Assumed office
9 June 1994
Preceded byRon Leighton
Majority33,176 (60.7%)
Personal details
Born
Stephen Creswell Timms

(1955-07-29) 29 July 1955
Oldham, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Hui-Leng Lim
(m. 1986)
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge
Websitewww.stephentimms.org.uk

Timms served in the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown under several portfolios. He served for three periods as Financial Secretary to the Treasury; from 1999 to 2001, 2004 to 2005 and 2008 to 2010. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Timms attended Cabinet from 2006 to 2007.

In May 2010, Timms survived an attempted murder by Islamist terrorist Roshonara Choudhry who stabbed him twice in the abdomen at his constituency surgery. His attacker was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Timms served on the Official Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Employment and later served in the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. He returned to the backbenches in September 2015.

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