Jim Knight
Minister of State for Schools and Learning | |||||||||||||||||
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| In office 5 May 2006 – 5 June 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister |
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| Preceded by | Jacqui Smith | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Vernon Coaker | ||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 6 May 2005 – 5 May 2006 | |||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Alun Michael | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Barry Gardiner | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 March 1965 Labour and Co-operative | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||
James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth,
After losing his seat to
Education
Knight was educated at
Early career
Knight was manager of Central Studio, the arts centre of Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, from 1988–90.[2] From 1990–91, he was director of West Wiltshire Arts Centre Ltd, then director of Dentons Directories Ltd in Westbury from 1991–2001.[3]
Election history
Knight first stood for Parliament at the
At the 2001 general election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for South Dorset by 153 votes in the only Labour gain from the Conservatives that year.[6] At the 2005 general election, Knight increased his majority to 1,812 votes, but with a small decrease in his share of the vote.[7] At the 2010 general election, Knight lost his seat to Conservative Richard Drax by 7,443 votes after an 11.4% drop in his share of the vote.[8]
Knight was the campaign co-ordinator for Ed Balls's unsuccessful Labour Party leadership campaign in 2010.[9]
Parliamentary career
Knight was
In 2009, when MPs expenses were revealed following a leak in the Daily Telegraph,[11] Knight was ranked 171 out of 645 in the MPs' expenses list, claiming £155,987 in 2007/2008, compared with £137,970 in 2006/2007, of which £94,135 was for staff, £9,746 was for a communications allowance and £4,993 was for personal living expenses.[12]
In his first
Jim Knight held the following positions:
- 2003–2004 – Parliamentary Private Secretary to Department of Health
- 2004–2005 – Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministerial Team at the Department of Health
- 2005–2006 – Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, the Landscape & Biodiversity
- 2006–2009 – Minister of State for Schools
- 2009–2010 – Minister of State for Employment
- 2009–2010 – Minister for the South West
After politics
Knight was created a
In April 2014 he stepped down from the Labour front bench in the House of Lords to take up a full-time role as managing director, online learning at TES Global Ltd, building an online professional development and training service for teachers. Knight was subsequently appointed chief education and external officer at TES Global.
In 2011, Knight was appointed as chair of digital and social inclusion charity Tinder Foundation (now Good Things Foundation). He stood down as chair in 2016 but remains a patron of the Technology, Pedagogy and Education professional association. He is now Chair Emeritus of the Digital Poverty Alliance and co-owner of XRapid, an app that diagnoses malaria and is a board member of Apps for Good. He is also the deputy chair of the Nominet Trust,[citation needed] and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.[16]
References
- ^ "List of members' Interests, Cabinet Office, March 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Minister makes college comeback for big day".
- ^ "Jim Knight". 17 October 2002.
- ^ p.308, Waller, Criddle, "The Almanac of British Politics", Psychology Press, 2002
- ^ a b "Lord Knight of Weymouth".
- ^ p.371, Waller, Criddle, "The Almanac of British Politics", Psychology Press, 2007
- ^ p.372, Waller, Criddle, "The Almanac of British Politics", Psychology Press, 2007
- ^ "Labour's Jim Knight loses to Tory". 7 May 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Privy Counsellors | Privy Council". Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "MPS' expenses: Full list of MPS investigated by the Telegraph". The Telegraph. 16 January 2018.
- ^ "WHAT IS THE COST OF OUR MPS?". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
- ^ "The Public Whip — Voting Record - Jim Knight MP, South Dorset (11027)".
- ^ "UK Government Web Archive" (PDF). webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
- ^ "No. 59471". The London Gazette. 28 June 2010. p. 12149.
- ^ "Honorary Associates". www.secularism.org.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
External links
- Jim Knight – Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Jim Knight MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com – Jim Knight MP
| Cabinet members | Gordon Brown
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| Also attended meetings | Lord Malloch-Brown Pat McFadden | |
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