Queen's Birthday Honours for WPC chair Stephen Timms

Orders and honours handed out over the weekend during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Hope William-Smith
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WPC chair Stephen Timms. Credit: UK Parliament
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WPC chair Stephen Timms. Credit: UK Parliament

Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) chair Stephen Timms has received a knighthood in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours for his political and public service.

Timms - who became chair of the WPC in 2020 - has been a Labour MP for East Ham in London since 1994. He has four decades of public service across both local and national level and was chief sec...

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