Jason McCartney
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Jason McCartney is a Conservative Party politician who was the MP for Colne Valley from 2010 until May 2017. He lost his seat at the June 2017 election to the Labour Party candidate Thelma Walker, a head schoolteacher.
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Political career
McCartney was first elected in May 2010 with a majority vote of 4,837 [1] and again in 2015 with a majority of 5,378. [2]
McCartney was also a member of the House of Commons Transport select committee. [3]
In January 2015 he was one of only six Conservative MPs who voted at Westminster for a fracking moratorium.
Staff
- John Travis, chief of staff
Affiliations
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Apprenticeships, Member
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Water Safety and Drowning Prevention[4], Member
- All-Party Parliamentary China Group - Vice-chair[5]
- Kurdistan Region in Iraq All-Party Parliamentary Group - Chair [6]
Contact
Parliamentary
- Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
- Telephone: 020 7219 7041
- Fax: 020 7219 6474
- Email: jason.mccartney.mp@parliament.uk
Constituency
- Address: Upperbridge House, 24 Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth, HD9 2JS
- Telephone: 01484 688364; 01484 688378
Web & Social media
- Website: http://jasonmccartney.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonmccartney
Notes
- ↑ Jason McCartney politics.co.uk, accessed 11 March 2015
- ↑ General Election 2015: Jason McCartney cruises to victory in Colne Valley The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8 May 2015, accessed 18 May 2015
- ↑ About me Jason McCartney MP, accessed 11 March 2015
- ↑ 'Water and Safety and Drowning Prevention Register',parliament.uk, accessed 11 November 2015
- ↑ China APPG, www.parliament.uk', accessed 23 November 2015
- ↑ Kurdistan APPG Register Feb 16, www.parliament.uk, accessed 18 February 2016
