Trudy Harrison

Trudy Harrison
Official portrait, 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Natural Environment and Land Use[a]
In office
8 September 2022 – 13 November 2023
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded bySteve Double
Succeeded byRebecca Pow
Minister of State for Transport
In office
7 July 2022 – 7 September 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byAndrew Stephenson
Succeeded byLucy Frazer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
16 September 2021 – 7 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byRachel Maclean
Succeeded byKarl McCartney
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
16 December 2019 – 16 September 2021
Serving with Alex Burghart
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byJames Heappey
Succeeded bySarah Dines
Andrew Griffith
Member of Parliament
for Copeland
In office
23 February 2017 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byJamie Reed
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1976-04-19) 19 April 1976 (age 48)
Seascale, Cumbria, England
Political partyConservative (since 2016)
Other political
affiliations
Independent (2004 to 2007)
Children4
Residence(s)Bootle, Cumbria, England
London, England
Alma materUniversity 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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  1. ^ "Ministerial Appointments: September 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Environment) – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Ministerial Appointments commencing: 25 October 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Natural Environment and Land Use) – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2022.