Harriett Baldwin
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Harriett Baldwin MP |
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| Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement | |
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Assumed office 17 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Philip Dunne (Minister of State) |
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Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) |
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In office 11 May 2015 – 16 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Andrea Leadsom |
| Succeeded by | Simon Kirby |
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Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Spicer |
| Majority | 22,578 (41.7%) |
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Harriett Mary Morison Eggleston 2 May 1960 Watford, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford McGill University |
| Website | harriettbaldwin |
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (née Eggleston; born 2 May 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Worcestershire since 2010.
She was born Harriett Mary Morison Eggleston in Watford, Hertfordshire, the daughter of a teacher. Her childhood was spent in Cyprus and in the village of Felsted in Essex. She was educated at the Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and read Modern Languages (French and Russian) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She earned an MBA from McGill University in Montreal.
Baldwin joined the investment bank JP Morgan Chase in 1986, becoming managing director and Head of Currency Management at their London office in 1998. She left the bank in 2008 and served as vice-chair of Social Investment Business between 2008 and 2012.
She contested the at the 2005 general election. Following the retirement of Michael Spicer at the 2010 general election, she was elected to the safe Conservative seat of West Worcestershire. Under the resulting coalition government headed by David Cameron, she was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee until she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Employment at the Department of Work and Pensions in 2012.
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