Trudy Harrison | |
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Natural Environment and Land Use[a] | |
In office 8 September 2022 – 13 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Steve Double |
Succeeded by | Rebecca Pow |
Minister of State for Transport | |
In office 7 July 2022 – 7 September 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Andrew Stephenson |
Succeeded by | Lucy Frazer |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport | |
In office 16 September 2021 – 7 July 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Rachel Maclean |
Succeeded by | Karl McCartney |
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | |
In office 16 December 2019 – 16 September 2021 Serving with Alex Burghart | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | James Heappey |
Succeeded by | Sarah Dines Andrew Griffith |
Member of Parliament for Copeland | |
In office 23 February 2017 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Jamie Reed |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Seascale, Cumbria, England | 19 April 1976
Political party | Conservative (since 2016) |
Other political affiliations | Independent (2004 to 2007) |
Children | 4 |
Residence(s) | Bootle, Cumbria, England London, England |
Alma mater | University of Salford |
Trudy Lynne Harrison (born 19 April 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland from the February 2017 by-election to the 2024 general election. Her election marked the first time Copeland had elected a Conservative MP since 1931, and the first time the constituency had elected a female MP. Three months after her by-election victory, Harrison was re-elected in the 2017 general election and held her seat in 2019.
In December 2019, Harrison was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In September 2021, she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport; she was promoted to Minister of State in the same department in July 2022.
She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment by Prime Minister Liz Truss in September 2022.[1][2] She was reappointed by Rishi Sunak.[3][4]
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