| Shailesh Vara, MP |
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Conservative MP for North West Cambridgeshire. Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 - General election. Shailesh Vara is the Conservative MP for North West Cambridgeshire and was elected in May 2005. He is also Vice Chairman of the Party nationally and lives in the constituency with his wife, Beverley, and baby son. He is presently the Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Brunel University and qualified as a solicitor. He has worked in the City and the West End of London, as well as in Hong Kong. He is married with two children. Shailesh has held various posts in the Conservative Party including being a Vice-Chairman of the Party during 2001-2005. Apart from his shadow ministerial brief, Shailesh holds a range of other responsibilities. These include being Joint-Vice Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Women and Children, Treasurer of the BBC All Party Parliamentary Group and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of Conservative Lawyers. During 2005-6, Shailesh was a member of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and in 2006 he served on the Standing Committee of the Companies Bill, scrutinising the largest Bill ever to go through Parliament. Moreover, during 2006 he was Joint Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Group on Foreign affairs. In 2006 Shailesh introduced a Private Member’s Bill to extend the age range for women to have compulsory breast cancer screening from the present 50-70 to the 45-75 age range. Unfortunately, the government did not allow the Bill to progress. In 2007 Shailesh tried to introduce another Private Member’s Bill to give greater protection to householders when they sought to defend themselves and their property from intruders in their homes. Again, the government did not allow the Bill to progress. Contact Details: Houses of Parliament Constituency Office: Did you Know? Shailesh is a member of the Executive Committee of the Great Fen Project, which seeks to raise funds to create a 3,700 hectare wetland in North West Cambridgeshire. |
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