Sarah Elizabeth Dines was born on 27 May 1965 and is a British Conservative Party politician.
40 Facts About Sarah Dines
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Sarah Dines has been Member of Parliament for Derbyshire Dales since the 2019 general election.
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Sarah Dines has been serving Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding since October 2022.
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Sarah Dines served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September to October 2022.
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Sarah Dines's mother served as a Conservative councillor on Basildon District Council and subsequently on Maldon Town Council, Maldon District Council and Essex County Council.
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Sarah Dines attended Chalvedon comprehensive school and completed her A Levels at Basildon College.
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Sarah Dines studied at Brunel University from 1983 to 1987, and at the Inns of Court School of Law between 1987 and 1988.
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Sarah Dines is a member of Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in July 1988.
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Sarah Dines worked as a family law practitioner, latterly at 3 Paper Buildings, dealing with divorce, including complex financial and business assets, care, adoption, international child law and child abduction and related issues.
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Sarah Dines is a member of the Family Law Bar Association and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.
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Sarah Dines has been a lifelong Conservative, joining the Conservative Party as a teenager; she was chairman of the Basildon Young Conservatives.
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Sarah Dines worked as a parliamentary researcher for MP Sir George Gardiner.
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Sarah Dines unsuccessfully contested the seat of Belfast East at the 1997 general election.
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Sarah Dines was elected as Member of Parliament for the Derbyshire Dales constituency at the 2019 general election with 29,356 votes, a majority of 17,381.
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Shortly after her election, Sarah Dines was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
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On 17 September 2021, Sarah Dines was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, alongside Andrew Griffith, in the second cabinet reshuffle of the second Johnson ministry.
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In July 2022, Sarah Dines was criticised for her handling of allegations involving the then Deputy Chief Whip, Chris Pincher.
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Sarah Dines mentioned that her mother canvassed with her in the pram, that she delivered her first Conservative party leaflet at the age of 8 and at the age of 17 was on the committee that selected David Amess as the then prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Basildon.
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Sarah Dines went on to say that her personal heroes were Margaret Thatcher and those who paved the way for Thatcher, the parliamentarians Airey Neave and Ian Gow.
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In March 2020, Sarah Dines was elected as a member of the Justice Select Committee.
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The newspaper accused Sarah Dines of "charging the taxpayer thousands of pounds for regular stays at a four-star hotel".
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Sarah Dines is a reluctant user of hotels and only stays in hotels in London when her parliamentary and departmental responsibilities have kept her working late at Westminster.
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Sarah Dines is a member of numerous All-Party Parliamentary Groups, including Policing and Security, Environment, Pacific Islands and Norfolk Island, Sovereign Defence Manufacturing Capability, Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Farming, Peak District, Trade and Export Promotion, Rural Business, Small and Micro Business, Caribbean, Commonwealth, Ireland and the Irish in Britain, Social Media, Women in Parliament and Endometriosis.
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Sarah Dines is a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly.
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Sarah Dines has a particular interest in the Armed Forces and veterans and is a member of the Armed Forces, Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans All-Party Parliamentary Groups.
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Sarah Dines is a supporter of the Blue Collar Conservatism group in Parliament, which exists to "champion working people".
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Sarah Dines has been a long-time Eurosceptic, and was listed as such when she was the Conservative candidate in East Belfast.
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Sarah Dines supported Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum, and is a member of the European Research Group.
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Sarah Dines declared herself to be "passionately committed to the countryside and the environment".
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Sarah Dines is a member of the 'Vote Blue, Go Green' movement within the Conservative Party.
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Sarah Dines is a member of the Armed Forces, Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans All-Party Parliamentary Groups.
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Sarah Dines has spoken out on the "truly despicable online abuse" to which parliamentarians have been subjected, stating that "attacks on physical appearance, seems to be predominantly aimed at women MPs".
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Sarah Dines said that some of the abuse she had received had to be dealt with by the police, and that in one case an online abuser admitted the crime of harassment and had accepted a police caution.
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Sarah Dines has raised the issue of funding for Ashbourne's long-awaited A515 bypass, stating: "For over 100 years, in one form or another, the Ashbourne bypass in Derbyshire Dales has been endlessly discussed, debated, consulted on and promised".
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Sarah Dines has been vocal on the need to address flooding concerns with her constituency.
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Sarah Dines has stood for local businesses within Derbyshire Dales, including farming, tourist attractions, quarrying, the hospitality industry, leisure centres, cheese, and distilleries.
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Sarah Dines has called for the police station in Bakewell to be reopened.
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Sarah Dines's husband is David Hoile, a public relations adviser.
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Sarah Dines is a former member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, and has drawn attention to the unit's role during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sarah Dines is a member of the Royal British Legion and the Ashbourne Ex-Servicemen's Club.