Background
Mills was born in Jacksdale on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border, and was educated at a Loughborough Grammar School and went on to study Classics at Newcastle University.
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Nigel Mills
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Newcastle University.
Career
Mills qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1999, working for PricewaterhouseCoopers until early 2010, moving on to Deloitte working as a Tax Adviser to businesses. Mills was a borough councillor for the ward of Horsley, Horsley Woodhouse and Shipley, sitting on the Amber Valley borough council. He was also a Heanor and Loscoe Town Councillor.
Parliamentary career
During Parliamentary recess in 2011, Mills volunteered with Voluntary Service Overseas in Tajikistan in a placement designed to improve the business environment and therefore stimulate the creation of jobs for more economically and socially vulnerable groups in the country.
In 2012 Mills volunteered again in Tajikistan with VSO, advising the government on how to improve the business environment to attract investment and create jobs. In October 2011, Mills voted for a referendum on Britain"s membership of the European Union.
In August 2013, he voted against the Government"s motion calling for support of possible British intervention in Syria. In November 2013, Mills launched an online petition calling for the Personal allowance in Income Tax to match and track an average working week on the National Minimum Wage, which would increase the Personal allowance to at least £12,304, cutting the tax by £460 for basic rate taxpayers.
Candy Crush Controversy
In December 2014 during a parliamentary meeting of the works and pensions committee Mills, a committee member, was caught playing Candy Crush on his taxpayer-funded iPad.
Mills admitted "There was a bit of the meeting that I wasn’t focusing on and I probably had a game or two." Mills was reported to have played the game for two-and-a-half hours. He initially admitted to The Sun that he had been playing and told the newspaper that he would "try not do it again". He later apologised "unreservedly" for his behaviour.
Achievements
Membership
55th United Kingdom Parliament. 56th United Kingdom Parliament]
Mills is a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee, and the Immigration Bill Committee.
