Parliamentary Career
Ainger was first elected for the seat of Pembrokeshire at the 1992 general election with a slender majority of 755. He re-elected in 1997 for the re-drawn seat of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire with a majority of 9,621.
From 1997 to 2001, Ainger served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Wales Office (and its predecessor the Welsh Office), serving three successive Welsh Secretaries (Ron Davies, Alun Michael and Paul Murphy). He was promoted in 2001 to Commons Whip and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. In 2005 he was promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office, a position he held until 2007. From November 2007 to May 2010 he was a member of the Treasury select committee. He campaigned on fuel poverty and better regulation of the banking industry.
At the 2010 general election, Ainger was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Simon Hart.
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