19 Facts About Elliot Morley

Elliot Anthony Morley was born on 6 July 1952 and is a British former Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Glanford and Scunthorpe from 1987 to 1997 and then Scunthorpe from 1997 to 2010.

Elliot Morley was released from prison on 20 September 2011 having served a quarter of his sentence.

Elliot Morley attended St Margaret's C of E High School on Aigburth Road in Aigburth in south Liverpool and received a BEd from Hull College of Education.

Elliot Morley was head of Special Needs at Greatfield High School in Hull.

Elliot Morley served as Fisheries Minister from 1997 to 2003, and then as Environment Minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, but left government in the May 2006 reshuffle.

In 2005 Elliot Morley assisted in the establishment of a Governmental Decontamination Service, to provide decontamination and cleansing assistance after chemical, radiological, biological, or nuclear incidents and major accidental releases of harmful materials.

Elliot Morley was Chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, leaving this post when his expenses claims came under investigation.

In 2007 Elliot Morley voted to support the Freedom of Information Bill, which would have given Parliament a blanket exemption from the Freedom of Information Act and thereby prevent the release of any information on expenses claims by Members of Parliament.

The Telegraph alleged Elliot Morley let a London flat designated as his main residence to another Labour MP, Ian Cawsey, a close friend and former special adviser.

In November 2007, the newspaper claims Elliot Morley 'flipped' his designated second home from his Scunthorpe property to his London flat, and for four months the two men claimed expenses on the same property.

Elliot Morley told BBC News that he had repaid the money two weeks before The Telegraph story breaking upon realising he had mistakenly continued claiming for his mortgage payments after the mortgage had been paid off in 2006.

Elliot Morley referred himself to John Lyon, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, in an effort to clear his name.

Elliot Morley eventually pleaded guilty in the Crown Court at Southwark on 7 April 2011 before Mr Justice Saunders, who had presided over the other prosecutions in the Parliamentary expenses scandal.

On 20 May 2011, Elliot Morley was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment on two counts of false accounting.

Elliot Morley was previously a Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers for services to flood and coastal defence.

Elliot Morley was expelled from the Institution of Civil Engineers on 4 July 2011, when the Institution's Professional Conduct Panel ruled that due to his breaching of "Rule 1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, which require all members to uphold the dignity, standing and reputation of the Institution" by "committing offences of False Accounting in connection with his responsibilities as a Member of Parliament" he should be expelled from the Institution.

Elliot Morley is Honorary Vice President of the Association of Drainage Authorities and Wildlife and Countryside Link.

Elliot Morley has an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Lincoln for services to nature conservation.

Elliot Morley is a former President of Hull Teachers Association.