CABLE, Dr Vincent

Member for Twickenham since 1997. Committees: Joint-Chair, Climate Survival Group since 2008; Secretary, Victims of Crime Group since 2007; Vice-Chair, Carers Group since 2007; Vice-Chair, Cardiac Risk in the Young Group since 2006; Treasurer, Financial Exploitation Group since 2005; Vice-Chair, Pulmonary Hypertension Group since 2005; Vice-Chair, Police Group since 2004; Vice-Chair, Management Group since 2001; Vice-Chair, Insurance and Financial Services Group since 2001; Member, Treasury Select Committee 1999-2000. Political career: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills since 2010; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2003-10; LD Deputy Leader 2006-07; LD, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 2000-03; Principal Spokesperson for Trade and Industry 1999-2003; Spokesperson for the Treasury 1997-99; LD, Twickenham 1992; LD, York 1983 and 1987; Labour, Glasgow Hillhead 1970 and Glasgow City Councillor. Special political interests: Economic policy, energy, policing (Chair, All-Party Group on Victims of Crime), health, development. Profession/Trade: Economist; former Chief Economist, Shell. Education: Cambridge University Natural Science and Economics; Glasgow University, PhD. Affiliations: Visiting Fellow at the LSE, Nuffield College, Oxford and the International Economics Programme, Chatham House. b. 9 May 1943. Widowed with three children. Remarried 2004.