Damian Collins
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Damian Collins MP |
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| Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee |
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Assumed office 19 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jesse Norman |
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Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary |
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In office 22 July 2014 – 23 June 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Keith Simpson |
| Succeeded by | Chris Pincher |
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Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Howard |
| Majority | 13,797 (25.1%) |
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4 February 1974 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Richardson |
| Children | 1s, 1d |
| Alma mater | St Benet's Hall, Oxford |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Damian Noel Thomas Collins (born 4 February 1974, Northampton) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Folkestone and Hythe in the 2010 general election. He was re-elected in 2015.
On 10 September 2012, Collins was made PPS to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers.
Collins was educated at St Mary's Roman Catholic High School, a voluntary aided Roman Catholic comprehensive school in Herefordshire, and Belmont Abbey School, a co-educational independent school in the same county, followed by St Benet's Hall, at the University of Oxford, from 1993 to 1996, from which he graduated in modern history. He was president of the Oxford University Conservative Association in Hilary Term 1995.
Between 1999 and 2008, Collins worked for the M&C Saatchi advertising agency. In 2005, whilst still at M&C Saatchi, he set up Influence Communications within the group which specialised in issues based marketing campaigns. Before joining M&C Saatchi he worked in the Conservative Research Department. In 2008 he joined Lexington Communications, where he was Senior Counsel, before leaving to fight the 2010 general election.
In 2002 he was the political officer of the centre-right think tank, the Bow Group and a contributor to its 2006 publication Conservative Revival (Politico's Publishing, 2006). In the September 2007 edition of Esquire magazine, he was featured along with six other Conservative parliamentary candidates, as one of the new faces of the party.
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