Editing Nick Ainger

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| name                = Nick Ainger
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| office              = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales]]
| primeminister       = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start          = 10 May 2005
| term_end            = 28 June 2007
| predecessor         = [[Don Touhig]]
| successor           = [[Huw Irranca-Davies]]
| office1             = [[Lord Commissioner of the Treasury]]
| primeminister1      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start1         = 12 June 2001
| term_end1           = 11 May 2005
| predecessor1        = [[David Jamieson (British politician)|David Jamieson]]
| successor1          = [[Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest|Tom Watson]]
| constituency_MP5    = [[Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire]]
| prior_term5         = [[Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Pembrokeshire]] (1992–1997)
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| predecessor5        = [[Nicholas Bennett (politician)|Nicholas Bennett]]
| successor5          = [[Simon Hart]]
| term_start5         = 9 April 1992
| term_end5           = 12 April 2010
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1949|10|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Sheffield]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England
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| nationality         = British
| spouse              = Sally Robinson
| party               = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
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'''Nicholas Richard Ainger''' (born 24 October 1949) is a Welsh politician who served as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire]], previously [[Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Pembrokeshire]], from 1992 to 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nick Ainger|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/nick-ainger/537/|access-date=2019-07-10|website=UK Parliament|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]}}</ref> A member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], he served in government under [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]] from 1997 to 2007.

==Early life==
Ainger was born in [[Sheffield]] in 1949, and was educated at the [[Netherthorpe School|Netherthorpe Grammar School]] in [[Staveley, Derbyshire]], and after leaving education in 1967 moved to [[Milford Haven]] and became a dock worker at the Marine and Port Services of [[Pembroke Dock]]. He was a senior shop steward in the [[Transport and General Workers' Union]] for 14 years whilst at the docks, and became elected to the former [[Dyfed]] County Council, on which he served from 1981 until his election to Parliament in 1992.

==Parliamentary career==
Ainger was first elected for the seat of Pembrokeshire at the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]] with a slender majority of 755. He re-elected in 1997 for the re-drawn seat of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire with a majority of 9,621.

From 1997 to 2001, Ainger served as the [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to the [[Wales Office]], previously the [[Welsh Office]], under [[Secretary of State for Wales|Welsh Secretaries]] [[Ron Davies (Welsh politician)|Ron Davies]], [[Alun Michael]] and [[Paul Murphy (British politician)|Paul Murphy]]. He was promoted to a [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Commons]] [[Whip (politics)|Whip]] and [[Lord Commissioner of the Treasury]] in 2001. In 2005, he was appointed [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales]], a position he held until [[Tony Blair]] departed office in 2007. 

Ainger spent the remainder of his tenure in Parliament as a backbencher, serving on the [[Treasury Select Committee]] from November 2007 to May 2010. He campaigned on fuel poverty and better regulation of the banking industry.

At the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]], Ainger was defeated by the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] candidate [[Simon Hart]].

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090122213637/http://nickainger.co.uk/ Nick Ainger] ''official website''
*{{UK MP links | hansard = mr-nick-ainger | guardian = 33/nick-ainger | publicwhip = Nick_Ainger | theywork = nick_ainger | record = | bbc = | journalisted = }}

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[[Category:UK MPs 1992–1997]]
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[[Category:Welsh Labour MPs]]
[[Category:Politicians from Sheffield]]
[[Category:1949 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Members of Dyfed County Council]]
[[Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Pembrokeshire constituencies]]
[[Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Carmarthenshire constituencies]]