DAVIES, Quentin

Member for Grantham and Stamford since 1997. Committees: Member, Treasury Select Committee 1992-98, Standards and Privileges Committee 1996-98; European Security Committee 1996-97; Secretary, Conservative Backbench Finance and Trade Industry Committees 1991-97; Vice-Chair, Conservative Backbench Deregulation Committee 1993-97. Political care e r: Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2001; Shadow Paymaster General 1999-2001; Opposition Spokesperson on Defence 2000-01; Opposition Spokesperson on Pensions and Social Security 1998-99; Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department of Education and Science and Home Office 1988-91; Parliamentary Candidate for Birmingham, Ladywood 1977. Special political interests: Pensions, social security, economy, finance, trade and industry, foreign and European affairs. Profession/Trade: Former merchant bank director. Education: Dragon School, Oxford; Leighton Park; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Harvard University. b. 29 May 1944. Married.