Nick Harvey

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Nick Harvey

Nick Harvey is a Liberal Democrat MP.

He was appointed Minister for the Armed Forces at the UK Ministry of Defence in May 2010.[1] He left the Government in September 2012.[2]

Background

Born in 1961 at Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, Harvey was educated at Queen's College, Taunton and Middlesex University.[3]

Mr Harvey worked in communications and marketing from 1983 – 1992, mainly for the City consultants, Dewe Rogerson and entered the House of Commons as Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon in 1992.[4]

He was the Liberal Democrats Shadow Defence Secretary from 2006 to 2010.[5]

Affiliations

Notes

  1. Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
  2. Cabinet reshuffle: Lansley replaced by Hunt in health job, BBC News, 4 September 2012.
  3. Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, Ministry of Defence, accessed 14 May 2010.
  4. Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, Ministry of Defence, accessed 14 May 2010.
  5. Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, Ministry of Defence, accessed 14 May 2010.