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Ian Swales

Politician

Ian Swales is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ian Swales · ايان سواليس				[sources]
Alias	Ian Cameron Swales				[sources]
Birth date	1953-04-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Leeds				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United Kingdom				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ian				[sources]
Last name	Swales				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democrats				[sources]
Website	www.parliament.uk				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q328019				[sources]
Position	House of Commons (member, 2010-2015) · member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010-2015)				[sources]
Education	Ashville College · University of Manchester · University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-02-04	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician (born 1953)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,649

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,800

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,192

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata333,783

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions472,181

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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