Background
COOMBS, Simon Christopher was born on February 21, 1947. Parents: the late Ian Peter Coombs and Rachel Coombs.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
COOMBS, Simon Christopher was born on February 21, 1947. Parents: the late Ian Peter Coombs and Rachel Coombs.
Wycliffe College, Stroud. Reading University, Bachelor of Arts, M.Phil. Spoken languages: french.
Coombs was Member of Parliament for Swindon from 1983 until 1997 when the seat was divided by boundary changes. Coombs stood in the new Swindon South seat but lost to Labour"s Julia Drown. He stood again for the seat in 2001, but was unsuccessful.
Coombs" Parliamentary term coincided with Swindon being the centre of a technology boom.
Sir Tim Berners Lee developed the idea of the World Wide Web while at the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) in Swindon. Coombs served as Treasurer of PITCOM, the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee and as Parliamentary Private Secretary (Parliamentary Private Secretary) to Rt.
Honorary Kenneth Baker, Member of Parliament, Minister of Information Technology in the Department of Trade and Industry, and as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Baker during his 1984-1985 term as Minister for the Environment. He later served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt.
Honorary Ian Language, Member of Parliament during his terms as Secretary of State for Scotland (1992–1995) and President of the Board of Trade (1995–1997).
Coombs also served as Parliamentary advisor to the United Kingdom Cable Television Association, representing at the time the constituency with the highest cable penetration in the country. Since leaving Parliament, he has kept active in the music sphere as a trustee of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and organizer of the Vaughan Williams exhibition in the composer"s home village of Down Ampney.
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49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament. 51st United Kingdom Parliament]
He was also Chairman of the Conservative Backbench Tourism Committee and a member of the British Recording Industry Association"s All-Party Parliamentary Group and the Select Committee on Employment.
Spouse Kathryn Lee Coombs (née Coe), 1983.