Christopher Richard Pond was born on 25 September 1952 and is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
17 Facts About Chris Pond
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Chris Pond was Member of Parliament for Gravesham in Kent, from 1997 to 2005.
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Chris Pond went to the Minchenden School in Southgate, London.
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Chris Pond lectured in economics at the Civil Service College from 1979 to 1980.
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At the 1987 general election, Pond unsuccessfully contested the Welwyn Hatfield constituency.
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Chris Pond won the Gravesham seat at the 1997 general election, beating the sitting Conservative Party MP, Jacques Arnold.
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Chris Pond was re-elected at the 2001 general election, and served as a member of the Social Security Select Committee, Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Treasury and then minister in the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Chris Pond introduced a Private Members Bill, the Employment of Children Bill in 1998, which subsequently led to greater protection for children at work.
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In February 2005, Chris Pond was arrested by the police after an alleged incident of criminal damage.
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Chris Pond had removed a sign illegally threatening to clamp his heavily pregnant wife's car and placed it on the door of a neighbour who he believed had been responsible, leaving traces of glue.
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Chris Pond was a Trustee of the End Child Poverty Campaign and of the National Family and Parenting Institute, which subsequently became the Family and Childcare Trust.
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Chris Pond is Chairman of the Lending Standards Board and of the Equity Release Council Standards Board.
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Chris Pond serves as vice-chair of the independent Financial Inclusion Commission, which he helped establish in 2014.
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Chris Pond is trustee of GambleAware and Z2K, a charity established to combat poverty and inequality in London.
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Chris Pond is a member of the Treasury Fintech Delivery Panel.
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Chris Pond has run 19 marathons, eleven of them in London, raising thousands for charity.
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Chris Pond ran the London Marathon again in April 2009 in support of Gingerbread, Macmillan Cancer Care and United Response and in 2011 in support of Prostate Cancer UK.