Nick Ainger

Nick Ainger, in a Labour Promotional Picture

Nicholas Richard Ainger (born October 24, 1949) is a British Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South, and since 2005 is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office.

He has served continuously in the Tony Blair government. He served 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 Pembroke 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. He was once used as a Phone-A-Friend lifeline on the TV gameshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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