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Trudy Harrison is a former MP for Copeland.

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Profile

Former Conservative MP for Copeland

Entered the House of Commons on 24 February 2017 — Byelection

Left the House of Commons on 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Education
• Department for Digital
• Culture
• Media and Sport
• Department of Health
• Nuclear Power
• Apprentices
• Living Wage: Copeland
• Tourism
• Squirrels: Conservation

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee ( 2 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Member, Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee (24 Apr 2024 to 14 May 2024)
• Member, Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (24 Apr 2024 to 1 May 2024)
• Member, Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] Committee (13 Mar 2024 to 19 Mar 2024)
• Member, High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee ( 6 Mar 2024 to 13 Mar 2024)
• Member, Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill Committee (21 Feb 2024 to 28 Feb 2024)
• Member, Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (18 Jan 2023 to 25 Jan 2023)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( 7 Sep 2022 to 13 Nov 2023)
• Minister of State (Department for Transport) ( 7 Jul 2022 to 7 Sep 2022)
• Member, Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill Committee (15 Dec 2021 to 4 Jan 2022)
• Member, Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill (England and Wales) Committee (27 Oct 2021 to 3 Nov 2021)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (16 Sep 2021 to 7 Jul 2022)
• Member, European Statutory Instruments Committee (18 Jul 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Education Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Jamie Reed
• Jack Cunningham

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Automated Vehicles Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee (6 out of 8)
• High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Nuclear Safeguards Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Agriculture Bill Committee (13 out of 14)
• High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill Committee Committee (1 out of 1)
• Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Ivory Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Tobacco and Vapes Bill: New Clause 14 - Application of the Part I of the Health Act 2006 to vaping 14 May 2024

  I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I am channelling my hon. Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham and her passionate work as a consultant paediatrician or, as she would say, the children’s doctor in the House. I regard her experience highly. As technology evolves, so do our habits. This new clause seeks parity for smoking and vaping, so that the same rules that...

• Public Bill Committee: Tobacco and Vapes Bill: New Clause 14 - Application of the Part I of the Health Act 2006 to vaping 14 May 2024

  I welcome that intervention, but we cannot ignore the trebling of the number of 11 to 17-year-olds who are starting to vape. However much the Minister says that people who are not smoking should not vape, and that no children should be vaping, that is not the reality in the communities that we serve. It is certainly not the reality in my Copeland community. I think the hon. Lady is saying...

• Public Bill Committee: Tobacco and Vapes Bill: New Clause 14 - Application of the Part I of the Health Act 2006 to vaping 14 May 2024

  My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. That is really what I am calling for, although it does not detract from the need to prevent the normalisation of vaping. However, I repeat the request for more in-depth research into the impacts of vaping and nicotine addiction on children.

More of Trudy Harrison’s recent appearances