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Revision as of 17:58, 16 November 2015
Iain Wright is a British Labour Party politician who was elected MP for Hartlepool in the by-election of September 2004, succeeding Peter Mandelson when he left Parliament to become a European Commissioner.
In October 2011 Wright was appointed Shadow Minister for Competitiveness and Enterprise. [1]
In the 2015 general election, Wright was re-elected with a majority of 3,024. [2]
In June 2015 he was elected chair of the House of Commons Select Committee Business, Innovation & Skills.
Affiliations
- Labour Friends of Israel, former director[3]
- Associate Parliamentary Group on Business, Finance and Accountancy
- British-Belize All-Party Parliamentary Group
- All-Party Parliamentary British-Latin America Group
- Coastal and Marine All-Party Parliamentary Group
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight Transport
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas
- All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group[4]
- All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group[5]
- As of July 2013 Big Four accountancy firm Deloitte provides Wright with an assistant, free of charge, to help draw up Labour's business policy. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Iain Wright MP promoted in reshuffle, 11 October 2011, acc 2 December 2011
- ↑ Iain Wright Express, accessed 19 May 2015
- ↑ Blair to set goals for Brown PM to consult MPs on Lebanon as advisers insist Labour's future must be agreed before he goes Ned Temko, chief political correspondent, The Observer, Sunday August 27 2006
- ↑ Rail APPG,www.parliament.uk, accessed 16 November 2015
- ↑ House of Commons, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 28 October 2011)
- ↑
