Greg Hands
Greg Hands is the UK Conservative Party MP for Chelsea and Fulham. He is also currently the deputy chief whip for the House of Commons. [1]
Background
Hands was MP for Hammersmith and Fulham from 2005 to 2010, but was re-elected as MP for Chelsea and Fulham at the 2010 election.[2]
Between 2009 and 2010, Hands served as as shadow treasury minister. Following the Conservative election victory in May 2010, he was appointed parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor George Osborne.[1] In the reshuffle following the resignation of defence secretary Liam Fox on 14 October 2011, he became assistant whip in the House of Commons.[3] Hands was appointed as treasurer of HM Household (deputy chief whip) in October 2013.[4]
Hands was educated at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School and at Cambridge University, he then went on to work for a decade in Berlin, the City of London and on Wall Street on trading floors. [5]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Greg Hands, www.parliament.uk, accessed 16 October 2011.
- ↑ Greg Hands, www.parliament.uk, accessed 16 October 2011.
- ↑ Details of Ministerial appointments have been announced., Number 10.gov.uk, 16 October 2011.
- ↑ Ministerial appointments: 7 October 2013, Prime Minister's Office, 7 October 2013.
- ↑ Greg Hands Conservatives.com, accessed 10 October 2014
