Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington is the Conservative Party MP for the Watford Constituency[1]. He is also chairman of both the Conservative Friends of Israel and the Number 10 Club[2].
In the 2015 general election, Harrington was re-elected with a majority of 9,794. [3]
On the 14 September 2015, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary jointly to the Home Office, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for International Development. He is responsible for co-ordinating work to resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees, advising the Home Secretary, Communities Secretary and the Prime Minister.[4]
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Staff
- Edith Bond
- Yasmin Goldsmith
- James O'Donnell
- Jennifer Reed
- Tiffany Trenner-Lyle - Overseas visit: 30 August-4 September 2015 to Israel and West Bank on fact finding delegation, funded by the Conservative Friends of Israel [5]
Affiliations
Conservative Friends of Israel | Number 10 Club | BICOM | All-Party Parliamentary Group for Apprenticeships | *Tackling Terrorism All-Party Parliamentary Group
Contact details
- Twitter: @Richard4Watford
Notes
- ↑ Richard Harrington, People, The Conservative Party, Accessed 03-January-2010
- ↑ Richard Harrington, People, The Conservative Party, Accessed 03-January-2010
- ↑ Richard Harrington storms to Watford victory in General Election Watford Observer, 8 May 2015, accessed 15 May 2015
- ↑ Richard Harrington ProfileGov.UK, accessed 25 September 2015
- ↑ Register of interests of members' secretaries and research assistants, 23 March 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 20 April 2016
