Apr 9 2009 by Edward Chadwick, Birmingham Post

Two Midland MPs have been named as among the worst elected representatives in the country who have failed to show up for large numbers of Commons committees.

Sion Simon, the Labour MP for Erdington, managed to get to just 29.7 per cent of meetings of the treasury committee.

Although he became the Government’s Further Education Minister in October, figures released by Parliament show he attended only 11 of 37 meetings in the 12…