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23-452: Membership of the committee is as follows: The chair was elected on 27 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020. Parish's resignation from the House of Commons became effective on 4 May 2022. Geraint Davies served as interim Chair until the election of Robert Goodwill as new committee Chairman. The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of

46-510: A 'Green tour operator', in 1989. Davies was elected to Croydon London Borough Council in 1986 representing New Addington ward, retaining the seat in 1990 and 1994 . He became Chairman of the Housing Committee when Labour won control of Croydon London Borough Council in 1994. He was elected Leader of the Council in 1996, resigning from the role and his council seat in 1997. He

69-561: A central London flat 12 miles from his constituency home and taxi expenses he should not have been entitled to claim because of his second home. He also spent £38,750 on postage which he claimed were the result of his constituency Croydon Central being virtually the biggest and, due to the Lunar House Home Office Immigration Department, arguably the busiest in the UK. "Somebody has got to do the most work. I am proud it

92-506: A fiscal strategy to incentivise consumers and producers towards cleaner vehicles. The latest version of Davies' Clean Air Bill was published in October, 2023. At the snap 2017 general election , Davies was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 59.8% and an increased majority of 10,598. Davies favoured a second referendum over Brexit . In August 2018, Davies wrote: To make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister next year, Labour must back

115-578: A public vote on the EU deal. The alternative is no deal, which would trigger a hard Brexit inflicted by a right-wing Tory prime minister between 2019 and 2022. (...) The chaos of a no-deal Brexit – with food and medicine shortages – will require emergency measures to keep lorries and planes moving. Shrinking economic activity and trade will require a squeeze on "expensive" environmental standards and rights at work. So, soon we may all be flying on board Jacob Rees-Mogg 's time machine back to Charles Dickens ' Britain. In

138-532: A reputation of "excessive drinking, sexual comments and unwanted touching" toward "younger women in the workplace". Two of his colleagues claimed Davies had "boasted" about bringing sex workers into parliament for drinks. The next day, the Labour Party received a second formal complaint regarding Davies' conduct. On 5 June, a third formal complaint was made against Davies according to Sky News . On 28 May 2024, Davies announced that he would step down as an MP at

161-597: Is from Aberystwyth and his mother's family are from Swansea . He was brought up in Cardiff where he attended Llanishen High School , before studying Mathematics then Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Jesus College, Oxford where he was Junior Common Room President. Davies joined Unilever as a Group Product Manager in 1982, and became Group Product Manager before joining Colgate-Palmolive as Marketing Manager. He then started his own companies including Pure Crete Ltd. and Equity Creative Ltd. Davies has been active in

184-570: Is one of 16 MPs who claimed expenses to cover their residential rent payments despite letting out their own properties in London. In Davies' case, he claimed £67,000 in taxpayer funding to rent a home between November 2017 and April 2021 while collecting rental payments from a home he owns in the capital. On 1 June 2023, Davies was suspended from the Labour Party after five women accused him of sexual harassment. Politico Europe reported, based on interviews with those who had worked with Davies, that he had

207-530: The 1955 general election in Northampton . Clark was elected to Parliament for Nottingham South in 1959, serving on the opposition front bench from 1964 to 1966, the only period in his career. He lost his seat in 1966. He returned to Parliament as the MP for East Surrey in 1970, and from 1974 until he retired in 1992 for its largely successor seat after boundary changes, Croydon South . Geoffrey Howe succeeded him in

230-659: The 2024 general election . William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston William Gibson Haig Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston , PC (18 October 1917 – 6 October 2004) was a British Conservative politician who sat for a total of 28 years as a member of Parliament for three constituencies. He was also a Member of the House of Lords . Clark was educated at Battersea Polytechnic , qualifying in accountancy in 1941. From 1941 to 1946 he served in World War II in Britain and India in

253-579: The Clean Air Act , Davies introduced the Clean Air Bill in September 2016 to curb emissions and develop sustainable transport systems by road, rail air and sea. This included air quality targets, vehicle testing reflecting on-road conditions, air pollution measurement and warnings, powers to restrict and ban diesel vehicles in urban centres, a national infrastructure of electric and hydrogen filling points and

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276-709: The Labour Party since 1982, being Assistant Secretary for Croydon North East Labour Party and Chair of Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party . He was a member of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs , and later the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union. He has been a member of the Co-operative Party since 1984 and joined the GMB in 1985. Davies became Director of Pure Crete Ltd, described as

299-629: The Royal Army Ordnance Corps , gaining the rank of major . He became involved in business, particularly investing in cane sugar production, with interests in St Kitts and Belize , and in property in the UK. He was also a consultant to Tate&Lyle . In 1949, Clark was elected to Wandsworth Borough Council , serving until 1953. He was unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat on the London County Council and stood without success in

322-748: The East Surrey seat when boundary changes meant he was transferred from the Reigate seat close by. He was active in the 1970s in restoring Conservative Party finances to a sustainable levels. He identified with the right wing of the party and voted against British membership of the European Community in 1971. He chaired the Conservative backbench Finance Committee from 1979 until 1992, encouraging Margaret Thatcher to pursue financial stability and free enterprise and defending her policies on television and radio. He

345-480: The committee being announced on 11 September 2017. The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 8 July 2015. The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010. Geraint Davies (Labour politician) Geraint Richard Davies (born 3 May 1960) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West from 2010 to 2024 . He

368-533: The release of British detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, with Feroz Abbasi and Moazzam Begg finally released on 25 January 2005. For the year 2004–05, Davies' MP costs, including staff and offices in Parliament and his constituency, were the highest in the country. Davies said "this shows I was one of the most hard-working MPs in Britain." According to the Daily Telegraph this included over £4,000 on

391-449: The series of Parliamentary votes on Brexit in March 2019, Davies voted against the Labour Party whip and in favour of an amendment tabled by members of The Independent Group for a second public vote. Davies was again re-elected at the 2019 general election , with a decreased vote share of 51.6% and a decreased majority of 8,116. In November 2021, The Independent revealed that Davies

414-475: The vote and a majority of 504. Following publicity of Davies' Bill in September 2014 to criminalise the distribution of sexually explicit images without consent on the internet (known as revenge porn ), the offence of "disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress" was enacted as section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 . The WIkipedia article about Davies

437-425: The vote behind the Conservative candidate Paul Beresford . At the 1997 general election , Davies was elected to Parliament as MP for Croydon Central with 45.6% of the vote and a majority of 3,897. He was re-elected as MP for Croydon Central at the 2001 general election with an increased vote share of 47.2% and an increased majority of 3,984. In February 2004, he was involved in a high-profile campaign for

460-691: Was also chair of the Housing Committee of the London Boroughs Association, the predecessor of London Councils , from 1996 to 1997. At the 1987 general election , Davies stood as the Labour Party candidate in Croydon South , coming third with 9.8% of the vote behind the incumbent Conservative MP William Clark and the Liberal Party candidate. Davies stood in Croydon Central at the 1992 general election , coming second with 31.3% of

483-630: Was elected as a member of the Labour and Co-operative Party , but was suspended from the party in 2023 and sat the remainder of his term as an independent. Previously, Davies was the Labour MP for Croydon Central from 1997 to 2005 . He had also served as the Leader of Croydon London Borough Council . Geraint Davies was born on 3 May 1960 in Chester . His family comes from west Wales ; his civil servant father

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506-456: Was me", he said. Davies repaid £156 used to post his annual report calendars by prepaid envelopes instead of stamps. Davies spent £2,285 on his kitchen and £1,500 on his living room at taxpayers' expense. At the 2005 general election , Davies lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Andrew Pelling , coming second with 40.6% of the vote. Davies was elected to Parliament at the 2010 general election as MP for Swansea West with 34.7% of

529-698: Was one of a number edited ahead of the 2015 general election by computers inside Parliament, an act which the Daily Telegraph reported "appears to be a deliberate attempt to hide embarrassing information from the electorate". In Davies's case, the information deleted related to his expenses. At the 2015 general election , Davies was re-elected as MP for Swansea West with an increased vote share of 42.6% and an increased majority of 7,036. In December 2015, Davies published his Fracking (Measurement and Regulation of Impacts) (Air, Water and Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Bill, calling for strict limits on water contamination and fugitive methane emissions . Sixty years after

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