David Neil Kidney (born 21 March 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford from 1997 to 2010.

He was a ministerial aide in the Environment team (for which no additional remuneration is given), but resigned in 2003 when he voted against the Iraq War.

He recently agreed to chair a new All-Party Group formed to highlight the role of science and technology in British agriculture.

[2] In the June 2009 reshuffle Kidney entered the Government as a minister for the first time, becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Energy and Climate Change, replacing Joan Ruddock.

After losing his seat Kidney was employed as head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.