Nicholas Bennett

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Nicholas Jerome Bennett (born 7 May 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician.

Bennett was Member of Parliament (MP) for Pembrokeshire from 1987 until 1992 when he lost the seat to Labour's Nick Ainger. Bennett was junior Welsh minister from 1990 to 1992.

Educated Sedgehill School, Polytechnic of North London (BA), Institute of Education (PGCE), and University of Sussex (MA); worked in educational publishing, 1974; Schoolmaster, 1976-1985

Conservative Councillor, London Borough of Lewisham, 1974-1982; contested St Pancreas North, 1973, Greenwich by-election, 1974, and GLC elections (Hackney Central), 1979; Member of Education Committee, Inner London Education Authority, 1978-1981

Conservative MP for Pembroke, 1987-1992; Member, Select Committee on Welsh Affairs, 1987-1990, and the Select Committee on Procedure, 1988-1990; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of State, Department of Transport, 1990; Vice Chairman (Wales), Conservative Backbench Party Organisation Committee, 1990; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office, 1990-1992; contested Pembroke, 1992, and Reading West, 1997; Member, Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFCE), 1992-1997; Advisor on public affairs, Price Waterhouse, 1993-1998; JP, South West Division, Inner London; Chief Executive, Association of Consulting Engineers, 1998-2002. MD of Kent Refurbishment LTd 2003-. Lecturer on World War Two, Poland and Germany since 2006.

In 2006 Bennett was elected to the London Borough of Bromley as a councillor for the West Wickham ward.