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Nick Ainger
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| Nick Ainger MP | |
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Member of Parliament
for Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Nicholas Bennett |
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| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
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| Born | 24 October 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
Nicholas Richard Ainger (born October 24, 1949) is a British Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South, and from 2005 until 2007 was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office.
He served continuously in the Tony Blair government. From 1997 until 2001 as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Wales Office and it predecessor the Welsh Office, serving three successive Welsh Secretaries (Ron Davies, Alun Michael and Paul Murphy. He was promoted in 2001 as a Commons Whip and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, a position he held until 2005.
Ainger was born in Sheffield in 1949, and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar 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 fourteen years whilst at the docks, and became elected to the former Dyfed County Council, on which he served from 1981 until his election as the MP for Pembrokeshire at the 1992 general election. Following a change of constituency boundaries, in the 1997 general election he successfully stood in the new Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South constituency.
He is married to Sally Robinson and they have one daughter.
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| Preceded by Nicholas Bennett |
Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire 1992–1997 |
Succeeded by (constituency abolished) |
| Preceded by (new constituency) |
Member of Parliament for Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South 1997 – present |
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