Members Of Parliament in Lower Thorpe Mandeville, Banbury, Oxfordshire - Oxford Mail

MPs: Andrea Leadsom MP; Emma McClarkin MEP;

South Northamptonshire (House of Commons)

Mrs Andrea Leadsom MP (Conservative)

Surgery: Friday 21 September 2012
3pm until 6pm
Wootton Community and Sports Centre

Friday 19 October 2012
3pm until 6pm
South Northamptonshire Council

Friday 23 November 2012
3pm until 6pm
Brackley Town Hall

Friday 14 December 2012
3pm until 6pm
Wootton Community and Sports Centre

Surgery Tel: 01604 859721

MP Since - 2010 Majority - 20,478 Born - 01/05/1963, Married (Ben), 3 children.
Education - Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls, Warwick University (Political Science).
Previous Occupation - Finance. Head of Corporate Governance, Invesco Perpetual.

Personal Overview - Senior finance professional with a career in the investment industry she has demonstrated over a prolonged period considerable interest in children's and family issues through a variety of charitable initiatives. Her local political campaigns to date have been sensitive to the extensive development of Northamptonshire which has taken place over the last couple of decades. In particular she has highlighted local concerns about house building taking place without commensurate increases in social or transport infrastructure. Her new constituency has important transport connections - nearby Daventry, around which the constituency is based, is a hub for road and rail links especially freight, and with the Silverstone racing track as well there are strong links to motor racing. Brawn Motor Racing, winners of the 2009 Formula One Drivers and Constructors Championships, (now under Mercedes ownership) is based in Brackley.

Political History - Conservative Party Member (1984-), former Councillor, South Oxfordshire District Council, Parliamentary Candidate for Knowsley South (2005), Member for Northamptonshire South (2010-). Member of the Treasury Select Committee (2010-).

Characteristics - Former volunteer for Raleigh International, arranging adventure weekends on farms for disadvantaged inner city children. Oxfordshire Charity Chair - family counselling for those with newborn children.

Business Tel: 020 7219 3000

Email: andrea.leadsom.mp@parliament.uk

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Interests: Business & Finance,Family Issues,Transport,Health,Charities,Motor Racing (Silverstone)

Commitee membership

• Treasury Committee (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Child Protection (Vice Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Childcare (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for European Reform (Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Faith and Society (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Female Genital Mutilation (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Hockey (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microfinance (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sure Start Children's Centres (Chairman)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sustainable Relationships (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Tennis Group (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Parliament (Member)

East Midlands (European Parliament)

Ms Emma McClarkin MEP (Conservative)

MEP Since - 2009 Born - N/a.
Education - Stroud Girls High School. Bournemouth University (Law Degree).
Previous Occupation - Legal Clerk. Government relations executive for the Rugby Football Union. Director within her Families business, Executive Energy. Political Advisor in the European Parliament.
Personal Overview - Elected to the East Midlands Region from second place on the Conservative regional list at the 2009 elections. Is likely to have European political experience of Brussels from her work in Government relations and from her time as a political advisor to Roger Helmer MEP.

Political History - Media campaign coordinator for the East Midlands Region at the 2004 European Elections. Political Advisor to Roger Helmer MEP. Has been a member of the Conservative Party Foreign Affairs Forum. MEP East Midlands Region (2009-). Member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-). Member of the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-). Substitute member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-). Member of the Culture and Education Committee (2009-). Substitute member of the Development Committee (2009-11). Substitute member of the Internal Market & Consumer Protection Committee (2009-). Substitute member of the International Trade Committee (2011-).

Other Information - Has been involved with Women2Win and CWO. Has been a member of the British Wildlife Trust and has raised money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer (her mother died of the disease). She has also completed the High Peak Hike. Has captained the European Parliament’s Touch Rugby team.
Intergroups - N/a.

Business Tel: 32 (0)2 284 9684

Email: emma.mcclarkin@europarl.europa.eu

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Commitee membership

• Internal Market & Consumer Protection (Substitute)
• International Trade (Substitute)
• Culture & Education (Member)

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