Editing Stephen Timms (section)

{{Short description|British Labour politician (born 1955)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = Sir Stephen Timms
| honorific-suffix    = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
| image               = Official portrait of Stephen Timms MP crop 2, 2024.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2024
| office              = [[Minister of State for Social Security and Disability]]
| term_start          = 8 July 2024
| primeminister       = [[Keir Starmer]]
| predecessor         = [[Mims Davies]]
| office1             = Chair of the [[Work and Pensions Select Committee]]
| term_start1         = 29 January 2020
| term_end1           = 30 May 2024
| predecessor1        = [[Frank Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead|Frank Field]]
| successor1          = [[Debbie Abrahams]]
| office2             = [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]]
| primeminister2      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start2         = 5 May 2006
| term_end2           = 28 June 2007
| predecessor2        = [[Des Browne]]
| successor2          = [[Andy Burnham]]
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| office2 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions]]
| termlabel2 = Acting
| leader2 = [[Harriet Harman]] (Acting)
| term_start2 = 8 June 2015
| term_end2 = 13 September 2015
| predecessor2 = [[Rachel Reeves]]
| successor2 = [[Owen Smith]]
| office3 = [[Department for Work and Pensions|Shadow Minister for Employment]]
| leader3 = [[Ed Miliband]]<br />[[Harriet Harman]] (Acting)
| term_start3 = 8 October 2010
| term_end3 = 13 September 2015
| predecessor3 = [[Mark Hoban]]
| successor3 = [[Emily Thornberry]]
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}}
{{Collapsed infobox section begin|last=yes|Junior ministerial offices
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| office4 = [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Britain]]
| primeminister4 = [[Gordon Brown]]
| term_start4 = 6 August 2009
| term_end4 = 11 May 2010
| predecessor4 = ''Position established''
| successor4 = ''Position abolished''
| office5 = [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]]
| primeminister5 = [[Gordon Brown]]
| term_start5 = 5 October 2008
| term_end5 = 11 May 2010
| predecessor5 = [[Jane Kennedy (politician)|Jane Kennedy]]
| successor5 = [[Mark Hoban]]
| primeminister6 = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start6 = 12 September 2004
| term_end6 = 6 May 2005
| predecessor6 = [[Ruth Kelly]]
| successor6 = [[John Healey]]
| primeminister7 = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start7 = 29 July 1999
| term_end7 = 8 June 2001
| predecessor7 = [[Barbara Roche]]
| successor7 = [[Paul Boateng]]
| office8 = [[Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform]]
| primeminister8 = [[Gordon Brown]]
| term_start8 = 25 January 2008
| term_end8 = 3 October 2008
| predecessor8 = [[Caroline Flint]]
| successor8 = [[Tony McNulty]]
| office9 = [[Minister of State for Competitiveness]]{{efn|{{nowrap|e-Commerce}} and Competitiveness (2002–04)}}
| primeminister9 = [[Gordon Brown]]
| term_start9 = 2 July 2007
| term_end9 = 25 January 2008
| predecessor9 = ''Position re-established''
| successor9 = [[Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera|The Baroness Vadera]]
| primeminister10 = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start10 = 29 May 2002
| term_end10 = 9 September 2004
| predecessor10 = [[Douglas Alexander]]
| successor10 = ''Position abolished''
| office11 = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion#List of Ministers|Minister of State for Pensions]]
| primeminister11 = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start11 = 6 May 2005
| term_end11 = 5 May 2006
| predecessor11 = [[Malcolm Wicks]]
| successor11 = [[James Purnell]]
| primeminister12 = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start12 = 23 December 1998
| term_end12 = 29 July 1999
| predecessor12 = [[John Denham (politician)|John Denham]]
| successor12 = [[Jeff Rooker]]
| office13 = [[Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)|Minister of State for Schools]]
| primeminister13 = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start13 = 11 June 2001
| term_end13 = 24 October 2002
| predecessor13 = [[Estelle Morris]]
| successor13 = [[David Miliband]]
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}}
| office15            = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]]<br />{{nobold|[[Newham North East]] (1994–1997)}}
| term_start15        = 9 June 1994
| term_end15          = 
| predecessor15       = [[Ron Leighton]]
| successor15         = 
| majority15          = 12,863 (33.9%)
| birth_name          = Stephen Creswell Timms
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1955|7|29|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Oldham]], England
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Hui-Leng Lim|1986}}
| alma_mater          = [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]
| website             = {{URL|https://www.stephentimms.org.uk/}}
| termend1            = 30 May 2024
}}
'''Sir Stephen Creswell Timms''' (born 29 July 1955) is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who has been [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham]], formerly [[Newham North East]], since [[1994 Newham North East by-election|1994]]. He has served as [[Minister of State for Social Security and Disability]] since July 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministerial Appointments: July 2024 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024 |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability) – GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--192 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=www.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> 

Timms served in the [[New Labour]] governments of [[Tony Blair]] and [[Gordon Brown]] under several portfolios. He served for three periods as [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]]; from 1999 to 2001, 2004 to 2005, and 2008 to 2010. As [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]], Timms attended [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]] from 2006 to 2007.

In May 2010, [[Stabbing of Stephen Timms|Timms survived an attempted murder]] by [[Islamist]] terrorist Roshonara Choudhry who stabbed him twice in the abdomen at his constituency surgery. Choudhry was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Timms served on the [[His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition|Official Opposition]] frontbench as Shadow Minister for Employment, and later served in the [[Shadow cabinet]] as [[Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions]]. He returned to the backbenches in September 2015.