Edward Timpson CBE KC
Biography
Edward Timpson was His Majesty’s Solicitor General for England & Wales between 7 July 2022 and 7 September 2022, and the Minister responsible for Children & Families in the Department for Education from 2012 to 2017.
Education
Edward studied political sciences at Durham University and law conversion at the College of Law, London. He sat his bar exams at the Inns of Court School of Law.
Political career
Mr Timpson was elected Member of Parliament for the former Cheshire constituency of Eddisbury in 2019, having previously served as MP for Crewe & Nantwich from 2008 to 2017.
He stood down from Parliament at the 2024 General Election.
He has served as:
- Solicitor General (7 July 2022 to 7 September 2022)
- Minister of State for Vulnerable Children & Families at the Department for Education (2016 to 2017)
- Minster of State for Children & Families (2015 to 2016)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children & Families (2012 to 2015)
- Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary (2010 to 2012)
- Author of The Timpson Review of School Exclusion (2019)
- Chair of CAFCASS (2018 to 2019)
- Chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (2018 to 2020)
And was also:
- A member of the Justice Select Committee
- A member of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee
- A member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights
- Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Adoption and Fostering, Looked-after Children and Care Leavers
- Vice Chairman for the Runaway and Missing Children Group
Career outside politics
Mr Timpson returned in 2024 to his practise as a family law barrister specialising in the cases of vulnerable children, as he did before he was first elected a Member of Parliament.