Charles Hendry

Charles Hendry is a Minister of State at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. He has been the Conservative MP for Wealden since 2001.

Background

Hendry is a former public relations man, having worked with international communications groups Ogilvy & Mather PR and Burson-Marsteller. He was Founder/Chairman/Chief Executive of The Agenda Group (1999-2005), a specialist consultancy helping company chairmen and chief executives with their corporate networking.

In the 1980s he was Special Adviser to John Moore MP as Secretary of State for Social Services (1988) and to Tony Newton MP as Minister of State for Trade & Industry and then Secretary of State for Social Security (1988-90).

Before the Coalition government was formed in May 2010, Hendry was Shadow Minister for Energy, Industry and Postal Affairs. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2003-05), Shadow Minister for Young People (2002-05) and Shadow Minister for Industry and Enterprise (May – December 2005).

Affiliations

• Westminster Education Forum - patron

Resources

• Rob Edwards, Waiving the rules to keep the nuclear power programme on course, Private Eye, 21 March 2012