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| − | [[File:Caroline Dinenage.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Caroline Dinenage]] | + | [[File:Caroline Dinenage.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Caroline Dinenage]]'''Caroline Dinenage''' is the UK [[Conservative Party]] MP for Gosport, first elected in May 2010 with a majority of 14,413 votes. <ref name= "Parliament"> [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/caroline-dinenage/4008 Caroline Dinenage MP] ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 3 March 2015 </ref> In the 2015 general election, she increased her majority to 17,098, winning 55 per cent of the vote. <ref> [http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/general-election-caroline-dinenage-holds-gosport-for-the-tories-1-6732423 General Election: Caroline Dinenage holds Gosport for the Tories] ''The Portsmouth News'', 8 May 2015, accessed 12 May 2015 </ref> |
| − | '''Caroline Dinenage''' is the UK [[Conservative Party]] MP for Gosport. <ref name= "Parliament"> [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/caroline-dinenage/4008 Caroline Dinenage MP] ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 3 March 2015 </ref> | ||
In April 2014 Dinenage was appointed parliamentary private secretary to education secretary [[Nicky Morgan]]. <ref name= "Caroline"> [http://caroline4gosport.co.uk/about-caroline/ Caroline Dinenage - Biography] ''Caroline Dinenage'', accessed 3 March 2015 </ref> | In April 2014 Dinenage was appointed parliamentary private secretary to education secretary [[Nicky Morgan]]. <ref name= "Caroline"> [http://caroline4gosport.co.uk/about-caroline/ Caroline Dinenage - Biography] ''Caroline Dinenage'', accessed 3 March 2015 </ref> | ||
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In 2013 she was also appointed the small business ambassador for the South by prime minister [[David Cameron]]. <ref name= "Caroline"/> Dinenage is also a member of the business, innovation and skills select committee and is said to use her expertise in business to help her promote small and medium-sized enterprise, UK industry and skills training in Parliament. <ref name= "Caroline"/> | In 2013 she was also appointed the small business ambassador for the South by prime minister [[David Cameron]]. <ref name= "Caroline"/> Dinenage is also a member of the business, innovation and skills select committee and is said to use her expertise in business to help her promote small and medium-sized enterprise, UK industry and skills training in Parliament. <ref name= "Caroline"/> | ||
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| + | In July 2013 Dinenage voted against the introduction of same sex marriages - something that has received a huge amount of attention since her appointment as equalities minister.<ref> Adam Withnall [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/david-cameron-appoints-second-antigay-marriage-mp-caroline-dinenage-as-equalities-minister-10244478.html David Cameron appoints second anti-gay marriage MP Caroline Dinenage as equalities minister] ''Independent'', 12 May 2015, accessed 14 May 2015.</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:41, 14 May 2015
Caroline Dinenage is the UK Conservative Party MP for Gosport, first elected in May 2010 with a majority of 14,413 votes. [1] In the 2015 general election, she increased her majority to 17,098, winning 55 per cent of the vote. [2]
In April 2014 Dinenage was appointed parliamentary private secretary to education secretary Nicky Morgan. [3]
In May 2015 she was promoted to minister for equalities at the Department for Education, and parliamentary under secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice. [4]
Background
Before entering parliament Dinenage worked at her own small business, a manufacturing company which she set up in a gap year before university. [3]
In 2013 she was also appointed the small business ambassador for the South by prime minister David Cameron. [3] Dinenage is also a member of the business, innovation and skills select committee and is said to use her expertise in business to help her promote small and medium-sized enterprise, UK industry and skills training in Parliament. [3]
Controversies
In July 2013 Dinenage voted against the introduction of same sex marriages - something that has received a huge amount of attention since her appointment as equalities minister.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Caroline Dinenage MP www.parliament.uk, accessed 3 March 2015
- ↑ General Election: Caroline Dinenage holds Gosport for the Tories The Portsmouth News, 8 May 2015, accessed 12 May 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Caroline Dinenage - Biography Caroline Dinenage, accessed 3 March 2015
- ↑ add
- ↑ Adam Withnall David Cameron appoints second anti-gay marriage MP Caroline Dinenage as equalities minister Independent, 12 May 2015, accessed 14 May 2015.
