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Full Name Harriett Mary Morison Eggleston Similar People Damian Hinds, David Gauke, Andrea Leadsom, Karen Bradley, Mark Garnier Profiles | ||
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Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (née Eggleston; born 2 May 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire since 2010 and Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement since July 2016. Prior to her parliamentary career, she worked for an investment bank after attending an independent school and the University of Oxford.
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- Harriett baldwin mp harriet baldwin defines the west lothian question
- Harriett baldwin mp the size of constituencies and proposals for change
- Early life and career
- Parliamentary career
- Personal life
- References
Harriett baldwin mp the size of constituencies and proposals for change
Early life and career
She was born Harriett Mary Morison Eggleston in Watford, Hertfordshire, the daughter of a teacher. Her childhood was spent in Cyprus and in the village of Felsted in Essex. She was educated at the Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and read Modern Languages (French and Russian) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She earned an MBA from McGill University in Montreal.
Baldwin joined the investment bank JP Morgan Chase in 1986, becoming managing director and Head of Currency Management at their London office in 1998. She left the bank in 2008 and served as vice-chair of Social Investment Business between 2008 and 2012.
At the 2005 general election, Baldwin contested the Stockton North constituency.
Parliamentary career
Following the retirement of Michael Spicer at the 2010 general election, she was elected to the safe Conservative seat of West Worcestershire. During the coalition government headed by David Cameron, she was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee until she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Employment at the Department of Work and Pensions in 2012.
Baldwin has served both as vice-chair on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Occupational Pensions and vice-chair and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Russia, leaving both APPGs in 2014. She has also represented the UK in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Baldwin was appointed to become the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Russia before joining the Government in February 2014 as Assistant Government Whip. In the Government reshuffle of July 2014 she was promoted to the role of Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.
After the 2015 election of a Conservative government, again with David Cameron as Prime Minister, she was promoted to Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister).
In July 2016, Baldwin was appointed as the Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Ministry of Defence as part of the Government reshuffle by new Prime Minister Theresa May.
Personal life
She has a son and two step-daughters with husband Jim Baldwin.