Charles Hendry

Charles Hendry is a Minister of State at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. He has been the Conservative MP for Wealden since 2001.<ref="Hendry"> Conservatives, Charles Hendry, undated, accessed 25 April 2012 </ref>

Background

Hendry is a former public relations man, having worked with international communications groups Ogilvy & Mather PR and Burson-Marsteller. He was Founder/Chairman/Chief Executive of The Agenda Group (1999-2005), a specialist consultancy helping company chairmen and chief executives with their corporate networking.<ref="Hendry"/>

In the 1980s he was Special Adviser to John Moore MP as Secretary of State for Social Services (1988) and to Tony Newton MP as Minister of State for Trade & Industry and then Secretary of State for Social Security (1988-90).<ref="Hendry"/>

Before the Coalition government was formed in May 2010, Hendry was Shadow Minister for Energy, Industry and Postal Affairs. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2003-05), Shadow Minister for Young People (2002-05) and Shadow Minister for Industry and Enterprise (May – December 2005).<ref="Hendry"/>

Affiliations

• Westminster Education Forum - patron

Resources

• Rob Edwards, Waiving the rules to keep the nuclear power programme on course, Private Eye, 21 March 2012