Geraint Davies

Quick Facts

Full Name	Geraint Davies
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 3, 1960(1960-05-03)
Age	64
Birthplace	Chester
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Chester
Horoscope	Gemini

Geraint Davies Biography

Geraint Davies is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 3, 1960 in Chester, Chester, United Kingdom. Geraint Richard Davies (born 3 May 1960) is a British politician who is the Labour Co- operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West. Previously, Davies was the Labour Party MP for Croydon Central from 1997 to 2005. He had also served as Leader of Croydon Borough Council.

Davies was born in Chester. His family comes from west Wales; his civil servant father is from Aberystwyth and his mother’s family are from Swansea. He was brought up in Cardiff where he attended Llanishen High School, before studying Mathematics then Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Jesus College, Oxford; while at Oxford he was Junior Common Room President. He married Dr. Vanessa Fry in September 1991 and they now live in Swansea.

For the year 2004–05, Davies’ MP costs, including staff and offices in Parliament and his constituency, were the highest in the country. Davies said “this shows I was one of the most hard-working MPs in Britain.” According to the Daily Telegraph this included over £20,000 on a central London flat 12 miles from his consistency home and taxi expenses he should not have been entitled to claim because of his second home He also spent £38,750 on postage which he claimed were the result of the Croydon Central constituency being virtually the biggest and, due to the Lunar House Home Office Immigration Department, arguably the busiest in the UK. “Somebody has got to do the most work. I am proud it was me,” he said. Davies repaid £156 used to post his annual report calendars by prepaid envelopes instead of stamps Davies spent £2,285 on his kitchen and £1,500 on his living room at the taxpayers’ expense.

Re-elected in 2001, Davies was appointed NSPCC Parliamentary Ambassador in 2003 (−2005) following his proposed Regulation of Childcare Providers Bill in April 2003 which saw the law changed so that childminders were no longer permitted to smack children and parents had the right to see records of complaints about prospective childminders in respect of child safety. These provisions were subsequently adopted by the Government. He then proposed the Physical Punishment of Children (Prohibition) Bill in July 2003 which made striking children across the head, with implements or shaking them illegal. He sought to address children’s issues with a Healthy Children Manifesto (June 2004) to ban junk food advertising to children and regulate food labeling (adopted by Government 11/06) and a School Meals and Nutrition Bill in January 2005 that sought to include nutrition in OFSTED and to ban unhealthy vending (provisions adopted 3/05 & 10/05). He also sponsored the Regulation of Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Bill (May 2004) to impose precautionary bans on chemicals with evidence of being dangerous. This bill was incorporated in the EU REACH directive 09/06 and supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature UK. He was also involved in a high-profile campaign for the release of British detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. Feroz Abbasi and Moazzam Begg were finally released on 25 January 2005.

At the 1987 general election, Davies contested the safe Conservative seat Croydon South, coming third. In 1992, Davies then stood in Croydon Central constituency coming second. At the 1997 general election, he stood again in Croydon Central, this time overturning the Conservative majority of 9,650 and becoming Croydon Central’s MP with Labour majority of 3,897. At the 2005 election he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Andrew Pelling by 75 votes.

Geraint Davies Net Worth

Geraint Davies is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Geraint Davies 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Davies joined Unilever as a Group Product Manager in 1982, and became Group Product Manager before joining Colgate-Palmolive Ltd. as Marketing Manager and then starting his own companies including Pure Crete Ltd. and Equity Creative Ltd. He became active in the Labour Party from 1982, being Assistant Secretary for Croydon North East Labour Party and Chair of Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party, and was a member of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, and later the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union. before joining the GMB in 1985. He has been a member of the Co-operative Party since 1984.

Davies was elected to Croydon Borough Council in 1986 for New Addington ward, and was retained at the 1990 and 1994. Davies became Director of Pure Crete Ltd, described as a ‘Green tour operator’, in 1989.

When Labour won control of Croydon Borough Council in the 1994 election, Davies became Chairman of the Housing Committee, and in 1996 was elected as Leader of the Council. He was chair of the Housing Committee of the London Boroughs Association -the predecessor of London Councils from 1996 to 1997.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Geraint Davies Dating?

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His Multinational Motor Manufacturing Companies (Duty of Care to Former Employees) Bill 2012–13 was designed to ensure that former Ford employees, including those from Swansea, who were transferred to an arms-length company called Visteon that Ford created, were compensated for the under-funding of their pension fund. This helped to secure the £29 million pay out in 2014 by Ford to former employees after a five-year campaign supported by an all-party group of MPs for which Davies was Labour lead.

Facts & Trivia

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Davies’ International Trade Agreement Scrutiny Bill would require scrutiny of, and enable amendments to, international trade agreements, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (the proposed EU–US free trade deal) and the Investor State Dispute Settlements (which threatens to give multi-national companies the power to sue governments for laws they pass which protect consumers or workers and thereby affect future profit streams), by the European and UK Parliaments. Davies asked the Prime Minister to support his Bill in the House of Commons on the day it was presented on 27 October 2014 and David Cameron responded: “there’s an awful lot of scare stories going round and this greater scrutiny can lay some of those to rest”. The Bill was reintroduced to Parliament in 2016 following a Commons debate in December

2015. Since then, Geraint has become Rapporteur for TTIP on the Council of Europe.

Where is Geraint Wyn Davies from?

Swansea, United Kingdom

How old is Geraint Wyn Davies?

65 years (April 20, 1957)

Who is MP for Swansea?

Geraint Richard Davies (born 3 May 1960) is a British politician who is the Labour Co-op Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West.

What is Geraint Wyn Davies doing now?

Geraint has continued to perform “Do Not Go Gentle” in Chicago, Stratford and New York. Most recently Geraint appeared at Washington DC’s Shakespeare Theater in “Cyrano” (Helen Hayes Award winner), “Love’s Labor’s Lost” (Helen Hayes Award nominee) and “Richard III”.

Who played Conan Doyle in Murdoch Mysteries?

Geraint Wyn Davies