Adams was born in Goole,Yorkshire in 1966 and raised in Selby.[1][2] He is the son of a school caretaker and school cleaner. Adams attended Camblesforth Primary School and Selby Grammar School. In 1994,with a £20 a week Enterprise Allowance Scheme Government grant,he co-founded Advanced Digital Telecom,which was sold for £3.1million to JWE Telecom in 1999.[3]
Following his successful re-election in June 2017,he was appointed Assistant Government Whip.[4] His departmental responsibilities included Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Northern Ireland Office (NIO). Following the Government reshuffle in January 2018,he was promoted to Lord Commissioner to HM Treasury in the Government Whips Office. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in May 2018,continuing to act as Lord Commissioner to HM Treasury alongside his ministerial duties.
In 2016,Adams was one of the key figures in the unsuccessful Conservative Party leadership bid by Boris Johnson.[citation needed] Adams appeared in the 2017 BBC docudrama Theresa vs. Boris:How May became PM.
He contested the marginal Rossendale and Darwen seat at the 2005 general election,coming second with a swing to the Conservatives of 1.9% compared to the 3.1% average they achieved nationally. Adams was then selected as the candidate for the Conservative Party in the newly created seat of Selby and Ainsty in 2006. Four years later at the 2010 general election,Adams was elected with a 23.71% majority.[5][6]
Adams was re-elected as Member of Parliament for Selby and Ainsty at the 2015 general election with 27,725 votes,a majority of 13,557 votes and 52.5% of the total votes cast,a swing from Labour of 1.0% compared to a negative national swing of 0.4%. He was re-elected again at the snap election on 8 June 2017 with 32,921 votes and an increased majority and vote share of 13,772 and 58.7% respectively.[9]
In January 2016,the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". According to Parliament's register of interests,Adams was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property. The Conservative Government had responded to the amendment that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it.[10]
Until June 2017,Adams was Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Biomass Group and in 2013 he wrote an article describing the benefits of biomass.[11] He regards wind and solar generation as relatively expensive and inflexible methods of renewable energy. Whilst coal is reliable and available,it is not renewable and converts inactive carbon stored underground into carbon dioxide thus increasing CO2 levels. Drax power station in his constituency is a major UK electricity producer capable of burning biomass.[11] A second power station in the constituency at Eggborough,also capable of burning biomass,closed in 2018 and was subsequently demolished.
In January 2015,Adams introduced the Onshore wind subsidies (abolition) bill to Parliament which passed to the next stage following a close vote.[citation needed]
Until June 2017,Adams was Chairman of the All Party Group for Music and in November 2015 he instigated several Parliamentary debates on the difficulties facing UK musicians accessing visas for touring the US. The group has additionally held a session on the State of Access report aimed at improving access to live music for deaf and disabled people.[citation needed] Adams has campaigned to change the law on Secondary Ticketing and he successfully persuaded the government to outlaw the use of bots for the purpose of purchasing event tickets for resale.[12] He also successfully lobbied to outlaw the use of flares and fireworks at music events and festivals.[13] He was Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Industrial Heritage.[14]
In March 2017,Adams was instructed to apologise to the House of Commons after the Commons Committee on Standards ruled that he had breached the MPs' code of conduct by failing to declare his interest in a telecommunications company while taking part in parliamentary inquiries relating to the industry.[16]
Adams' constituency office in Tadcaster;the second largest town in his constituency
In November 2013,Adams gained praise from the Chancellor,George Osborne,for successfully leading the campaign to restore the concessionary coal allowance[24] to retired coal miners,[25] who had their allowance stopped following the collapse of UK Coal.
In December 2014,Adams and Mark Crane,leader of Selby District Council,successfully lobbied race organisers for Selby District to host a stage of the international cycle race known as the Tour de Yorkshire.[26]
In October 2015,The Daily Telegraph highlighted problems associated with a private company's recycled waste. The company had gone bankrupt and Adams was pictured in Great Heck where a tip with up to 10,000 tons of "stinking" and steaming household waste was said to be making people sick.[28]
Expenses
Between 2011 and 2012,Adams claimed the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) approved accommodation allowance of £26,144 against a maximum annual allowance of £27,875 based on having four children living with him in London,whilst also claiming his family live in Yorkshire. Critics[who?] pointed out the coalition government removed support for other families earning £60,000.[29] Since his election in 2010,his average accommodation costs have been £21,468.36 per year against a maximum annual allowance of £27,875.00.[30]
Donations
In 2015,Adams voted against plain cigarette packaging in the Tobacco Products Regulation motion. He had previously accepted £1,188 in hospitality from Japan Tobacco International during the 2012 Chelsea Flower Show.[31] The Telegraph reported that Adams had received a total of £60,000 in tobacco industry hospitality from 2010 to 2015.[32]
He was criticised by Greenpeace for promoting biomass as an energy source after accepting more than £50,000 in political donations and hospitality from companies in the biomass sector.[33]
Personal life
Adams is married to Claire (née Robson) who worked part-time as his office manager on a salary just under £20,000.[34][35] The couple have four children and live in Yorkshire,except for expense purposes,when they reside in London. [36]
He is a patron of the Selby Hands of Hope charity.[37] A cricket enthusiast,he is active on the Yorkshire committee of the Lord's Taverners. While playing for the Lords and Commons Cricket team against the MCC at Lord's in 2013,he scored an unbeaten century.[38]
Adams has served as a governor at two of his former schools,Camblesforth Primary School[39] (2002–04) and Selby High School (2007–11).[citation needed]
Sir Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Cotswolds, formerly Cirencester and Tewkesbury, since 1992.
Nigel Martin Evans is a former British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ribble Valley in Lancashire from the 1992 until 2024. He was Joint Executive Secretary of the 1922 Committee from 2017 to 2019. He served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, one of the Speaker's three deputies, from 2010 to 2013. He was elected as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in 2020.
John Timothy Grogan is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby between 1997 and 2010 and for Keighley between 2017 and 2019. He is currently chair of the Mongolian–British Chamber of Commerce (MBCC).
Laurence Anthony Robertson is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1997 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he chaired the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for seven years, from 2010 to 2017.
Selby is a parliamentary constituency in North Yorkshire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency existed from 1983 to 2010 prior to reformation in 2024.
Sir Robert Goodwill is a British Conservative Party politician and farmer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby from 2005 to 2024. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Goodwill served in Theresa May's government as Minister of State at the Home Office, the Department for Education, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Peter William Bone is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellingborough from 2005 until his removal in 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, he had sat as an independent in the House of Commons after the Conservative whip was withdrawn from him in 2023, until he was removed by a recall petition in December of that year. He campaigned for Brexit in the EU referendum and was part of the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave. From July to September 2022, he served as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.
Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 150, an increase from 130 at the 2001 Census.
Selby and Ainsty was a constituency in North Yorkshire.
Barkston Ash was a parliamentary constituency centred on the village of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The basic annual salary of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons is £91,346, plus expenses, from April 2024. In addition, MPs are able to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence or a residence in London. Additional salary is paid for appointments or additional duties, such as ministerial appointments, being a whip, chairing a select committee or chairing a Public Bill committee.
Stuart James Andrew is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry since 2024. He was the MP for Pudsey from 2010 until the constituency was abolished before the 2024 general election. He has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society since September 2022 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities since October 2022. Andrew previously served as Government Deputy Chief Whip from 2020 to 2022, Minister of State for Housing from February to July 2022, and Minister of State for Prisons and Probation from July to September 2022.
Nigel John Mills is a British politician and former chartered accountant who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Amber Valley in Derbyshire from the 2010 general election until 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has campaigned for the pro-Brexit, Eurosceptic Leave Means Leave group following the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
Nigel Paul Huddleston is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Droitwich and Evesham, previously Mid Worcestershire, since 2015 and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury since 2024. He served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from November 2023 to July 2024. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister of State for International Trade from February to November 2023.
The Yorkshire Party is a regionalist political party in Yorkshire, a historic county of England. The party, which was founded in 2014, campaigns for the establishment of a devolved Yorkshire Parliament within the United Kingdom, with powers over education, environment, transportation and housing.
Luke Anthony Hall is a British Conservative politician and former retail manager who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Thornbury and Yate from 2015 until May 2024. He served as Minister of State for Regional Growth and Local Government from 2020 to 2021, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party from February to July 2022 and from 2023 to 2024, and Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education from March to July 2024.
Jack Edgar Brereton is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stoke-on-Trent South constituency from the 2017 general election until 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he is a former councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
The European Research Group (ERG) is a research support group and caucus of Eurosceptic Conservative Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The journalist Sebastian Payne described it in the Financial Times as "the most influential [research group] in recent political history".
A by-election was held in the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Selby and Ainsty in North Yorkshire on 20 July 2023, following the announcement on 10 June that the incumbent Conservative Party member of Parliament (MP), Nigel Adams, was standing down from Parliament with immediate effect. Adams had previously announced his intention to stand down as an MP at the 2024 general election, with the party having selected a candidate to succeed him the previous day. Adams formally confirmed his resignation on 12 June.
Keir Alexander Mather is a British Labour politician who serves as Assistant Government Whip. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby, formerly Selby and Ainsty, since the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election. At the time of his election, aged 25, Mather was the youngest MP.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
