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==Affiliations== | ==Affiliations== | ||
* Chair of the [[All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group]] 2010-2011. | * Chair of the [[All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group]] 2010-2011. | ||
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| + | *[[Carrie Symonds]] | ||
==External resources== | ==External resources== | ||
| − | * | + | *Jane Merrick, Brian Brady, James Hanning and Andy McCorkell, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-senior-mps-secret-links-to-murdoch-2315111.html Revealed: Senior MP's secret links to Murdoch], ''The Independent'', 17 July 2011. |
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 09:34, 4 June 2015
John Whittingdale is the Conservative MP for Maldon.[1] In May 2015 he was announced a member of the Cabinet Office as secretary of state for culture, media and sport.[2]
Dinner with lobbyists
Details of the attendees and seating plans of the Conservative's 2013 summer ball, an event where tickets cost up to £12,000 each and allows attendees to sit at the table with ministers, were leaked by the Guardian. It revealed that Whittingdale sat at a table hosted by David Burnside, which included Samantha and David Cameron and one of Vladimir Putin's aides Vasily Shestakov.[3]
Affiliations
- Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group 2010-2011.
Special advisers and aides
External resources
- Jane Merrick, Brian Brady, James Hanning and Andy McCorkell, Revealed: Senior MP's secret links to Murdoch, The Independent, 17 July 2011.
Notes
- ↑ John Whittingdale, www.parliament.uk, accessed 14 October 2011.
- ↑ BBC News John Whittingdale becomes UK culture secretary, 11 May 2015, accessed 11 May 2015.
- ↑ Melanie Newman Russian front: Cameron’s encounter with Putin friend at Tory party The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 1 July 2014, accessed 17 October 2014