Revision as of 09:31, 6 December 2010 edit93.96.164.99 (talk)No edit summaryTag: possible BLP issue or vandalism← Previous edit | Revision as of 09:33, 6 December 2010 edit undoFæ (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Rollbackers83,148 editsm Reverted edits by 93.96.164.99 to last version by Sdouglass5 (GLOO)Next edit → | ||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Otherpersons|Jeremy |
{{Otherpersons|Jeremy Hunt}} | ||
{{Infobox Politician | {{Infobox Politician | ||
|honorific-prefix = <small>]</small><br /> | |honorific-prefix = <small>]</small><br /> | ||
|name = Jeremy |
|name = Jeremy Hunt | ||
|honorific-suffix = <br><small>] ]</small> | |honorific-suffix = <br><small>] ]</small> | ||
|image = Jeremy |
|image = Jeremy Hunt Farnham 2010.JPG | | ||
|office = ] | |office = ] | ||
|primeminister = ] | |primeminister = ] | ||
Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
|alma_mater = ] | |alma_mater = ] | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Jeremy Richard Streynsham |
'''Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt'''<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59418 |startpage=8745 |date=13 May 2010}}</ref> (born 1 November 1966), a British ] politician, is the ] (MP) for ] and ]. | ||
He was appointed as a ] on 13 May 2010.<ref name="pc-13may2010">{{cite web | He was appointed as a ] on 13 May 2010.<ref name="pc-13may2010">{{cite web | ||
Line 39: | Line 39: | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
The eldest son of ],<ref> Daily Mail, 3 January 2009</ref>, a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Jeremy |
The eldest son of ],<ref> Daily Mail, 3 January 2009</ref>, a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Jeremy Hunt was raised in ] near the ] that he now represents in Parliament. | ||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
Hunt was educated at ], an ] near ] in ], where he was head boy, followed by ] at the ], where he achieved a ] in ] (PPE). He became President of ] in 1987. | |||
==Life and career== | ==Life and career== | ||
Shortly after graduating, |
Shortly after graduating, Hunt became a management consultant before resigning to become an ] in Japan. Whilst living in Japan he became a proficient speaker of Japanese and an enthusiast of modern ]. | ||
On his return to Britain, |
On his return to Britain, Hunt joined Profile PR, a ] agency specialising in ] co-founded by his childhood friend Mike Elms. With clients such as ], Bull Integris, and ] Profile did well during the IT boom of the mid 1990s. Hunt and Elms later sold their interest in Profile in order to concentrate on directory publishing. Together they founded a company now known as ] one of whose major clients is the ]. | ||
Hotcourses also provides financial support to |
Hotcourses also provides financial support to Hunt's parliamentary office (see House of Commons Directory of Member Interests and Directory of MPs' Research Assistants' Interests). In September 2010 'The Observer' reported disquiet that Hunt's former parliamentary assistant Naomi Gummer had been given a job within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on a fixed-term civil servant | ||
contract during a 'freeze' on civil service recruitment and proposed cuts in DCMS and in quangoes: | contract during a 'freeze' on civil service recruitment and proposed cuts in DCMS and in quangoes: | ||
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/19/jeremy- |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/19/jeremy-hunt-naomi-gummer-chadlington-dcms Ms Gummer | ||
is the daughter of Tory peer Lord Chadlington who was a director of Hotcourses between 2000 and 2004. | is the daughter of Tory peer Lord Chadlington who was a director of Hotcourses between 2000 and 2004. | ||
==Member of Parliament== | ==Member of Parliament== | ||
Hunt was elected at the ], after ] - a former member of the Board of Trustees of British Council - became a ]. He won the constituency with an increased majority of 5,711. | |||
After supporting ] bid for leadership of the ], he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in December 2005. He was then promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, in ] reshuffle of 2 July 2007. | After supporting ] bid for leadership of the ], he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in December 2005. He was then promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, in ] reshuffle of 2 July 2007. | ||
He launched his own ] Channel in March 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/ |
He launched his own ] Channel in March 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/mpjeremyHunt|title=Jeremy Hunt's YouTube Channel|accessdate=12 August 2008}}</ref> | ||
Hunt has been actively involved in many local campaigns within South West Surrey. These include, saving the Royal Surrey Hospital, stopping inappropriate over development, saving Milford Hospital and protecting community beds at Haslemere Hospital. He cites the successful campaign to save the Royal Surrey County Hospital as his proudest political achievement.<ref name=ConProf> Conservative Party</ref> | |||
===Political views=== | ===Political views=== | ||
An ardent ] of the same generation as ] and ], |
An ardent ] of the same generation as ] and ], Hunt became involved in politics during the Thatcher Years of the 1980s - a period which coincided with his time at Oxford University, where he became active in the ] (OUCA). Hunt was one of the four conservative MPs who voted in favour of the ].<ref> Debill Votes, 8 April 2010</ref> | ||
===Expenses=== | ===Expenses=== | ||
Hunt was investigated by the parliamentary commissioner in 2009 for allowing his political agent to live in his taxpayer funded home in Farnham as a lodger, a serious breach of the rules, and had to pay back £9,558.50. The commissioner considered it a serious matter that Mr Hunt allowed his constituency agent to stay with him in his second home rent-free while claiming the full costs from parliamentary allowances. | |||
Hunt had to pay back £1,996 for claiming the expenses of his Farnham home whilst claiming the mortgage of his Hammersmith home. A further breach of the rules. | |||
Hunt told the commissioner that he did not wish to pursue the argument in his letter of 24 June that he owned outright a proportion of the equity of his Farnham home and was therefore free to allow others to use the property to a similar proportionate extent. He agreed that "it is reasonable" for the rules of the House to cover the whole property. | |||
Full report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmstnprv/157/15702.htm | Full report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmstnprv/157/15702.htm | ||
In 2007 |
In 2007 Hunt accidentally submitted the same claim twice for office supplies. He paid back the £659.75 in 2009. | ||
Hunt overclaimed on council tax. He overclaimed by £635.48 during the period from May 2005 to March 2008. This was due to clerical mistakes, mainly claiming for 12 months when council tax is only charged for 10 months. Hunt therefore refunded the parliamentary authorities in 2009. | |||
http://www. |
http://www.jeremyhunt.org/text.aspx?id=125 | ||
Hunt filed an expenses claim for one ] to cover the cost of a 12-second mobile phone call.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/jeremy-hunt/Jeremy_Hunt_0506_IEP.pdf|title=Jeremy Hunt's Incidental Expenses Provision/Staff Allowance 2005-06, pp. 60, 63|accessdate=18 June 2009|publisher=UK Parliament}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/interviews/legal-and-constitutional/the-top-ten-funniest-expenses-claims-$1305217.htm|title=The top ten funniest expenses claims|accessdate=22 June 2009|publisher=politics.co.uk|date=19 June 2009}}</ref> | |||
Hunt was one of the first ten MPs to hold a public meeting about his expenses, which was held in June 2009 at The Farnham Maltings. He is also one of the one hundred lowest claiming MPs, and publishes his expenses online.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/jeremy_hunt/south_west_surrey#expenses|title=Jeremy Hunt, Conservative MP for South West Surrey|publisher=TheyWorkForYou.com|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> | |||
===Hillsborough Comments=== | ===Hillsborough Comments=== | ||
Hunt attracted controversy for suggesting football hooliganism played a part in the death of 96 football fans in the ]. He later apologised saying "I know that fan unrest played no part in the terrible events of April 1989 and I apologise to Liverpool fans and the families of those killed and injured in the Hillsborough disaster if my comments caused any offence." | |||
<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/10434714.stm|title=Jeremy |
<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/10434714.stm|title=Jeremy Hunt 'sorry' over Hillsborough hooligans claim|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=28 June 2010 | date=28 June 2010}}</ref> | ||
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
Hunt married Lucia in 2009. They have one son (born May 2010).<ref> Jeremy Hunt, May 2010</ref> | |||
Hunt's wealth is estimated at £4.1m.<ref>Samira Shackle, Stephanie Hegarty and George Eaton ''New Statesman'', 1 October 2009</ref><ref>Glen Owen ''Mail on Sunday'', 23 May 2010</ref>. He is known to be a ] in his spare time.<ref name=ConProf/> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Line 101: | Line 101: | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* ''Official constituency website'' | * ''Official constituency website'' | ||
*{{MPLinksUK | hansard = mr-jeremy- |
*{{MPLinksUK | hansard = mr-jeremy-hunt | guardian = 9358/jeremy-hunt | publicwhip = Jeremy_Hunt| theywork = jeremy_hunt| record = Jeremy-Hunt/South-West-Surrey/648 | journalisted = jeremy-hunt }} | ||
* | * | ||
* '']'' | * '']'' | ||
* BBC News, June 2005 | * BBC News, June 2005 | ||
Line 137: | Line 137: | ||
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see ]. --> | {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see ]. --> | ||
| NAME = |
| NAME =Hunt, Jeremy | ||
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | ||
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = | | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | ||
Line 145: | Line 145: | ||
| PLACE OF DEATH = | | PLACE OF DEATH = | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT: |
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Jeremy}} | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] | ||
Line 156: | Line 156: | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] | ||
] | ] |
Revision as of 09:33, 6 December 2010
For other people named Jeremy Hunt, see Jeremy Hunt (disambiguation).The Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP PC | |
---|---|
File:Jeremy Hunt Farnham 2010.JPG | |
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 12 May 2010 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Ben Bradshaw (Culture, Media and Sport) Tessa Jowell (Olympics) |
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Shadow Minister of State for the Olympics | |
In office 2 July 2007 – 11 May 2010 | |
Leader | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Hugo Swire |
Succeeded by | Ben Bradshaw |
Member of Parliament for South West Surrey | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 5 May 2005 | |
Preceded by | Virginia Bottomley |
Majority | 16,318 (28.5%) |
Personal details | |
Born | (1966-11-01) 1 November 1966 (age 58) Godalming, Surrey, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966), a British Conservative Party politician, is the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
Early life
The eldest son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt,, a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Jeremy Hunt was raised in Surrey near the constituency that he now represents in Parliament.
Education
Hunt was educated at Charterhouse School, an independent school near Godalming in Surrey, where he was head boy, followed by Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he achieved a First in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). He became President of Oxford University Conservative Association in 1987.
Life and career
Shortly after graduating, Hunt became a management consultant before resigning to become an English language teacher in Japan. Whilst living in Japan he became a proficient speaker of Japanese and an enthusiast of modern Japanese culture.
On his return to Britain, Hunt joined Profile PR, a public relations agency specialising in IT co-founded by his childhood friend Mike Elms. With clients such as BT, Bull Integris, and Zetafax Profile did well during the IT boom of the mid 1990s. Hunt and Elms later sold their interest in Profile in order to concentrate on directory publishing. Together they founded a company now known as Hotcourses one of whose major clients is the British Council. Hotcourses also provides financial support to Hunt's parliamentary office (see House of Commons Directory of Member Interests and Directory of MPs' Research Assistants' Interests). In September 2010 'The Observer' reported disquiet that Hunt's former parliamentary assistant Naomi Gummer had been given a job within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on a fixed-term civil servant contract during a 'freeze' on civil service recruitment and proposed cuts in DCMS and in quangoes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/19/jeremy-hunt-naomi-gummer-chadlington-dcms Ms Gummer is the daughter of Tory peer Lord Chadlington who was a director of Hotcourses between 2000 and 2004.
Member of Parliament
Hunt was elected at the 2005 general election, after Virginia Bottomley - a former member of the Board of Trustees of British Council - became a life peer. He won the constituency with an increased majority of 5,711.
After supporting David Cameron's bid for leadership of the Conservative Party, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in December 2005. He was then promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, in David Cameron's reshuffle of 2 July 2007.
He launched his own YouTube Channel in March 2008.
Hunt has been actively involved in many local campaigns within South West Surrey. These include, saving the Royal Surrey Hospital, stopping inappropriate over development, saving Milford Hospital and protecting community beds at Haslemere Hospital. He cites the successful campaign to save the Royal Surrey County Hospital as his proudest political achievement.
Political views
An ardent Tory of the same generation as David Cameron and Boris Johnson, Hunt became involved in politics during the Thatcher Years of the 1980s - a period which coincided with his time at Oxford University, where he became active in the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA). Hunt was one of the four conservative MPs who voted in favour of the 2010 Digital Economy Act.
Expenses
Hunt was investigated by the parliamentary commissioner in 2009 for allowing his political agent to live in his taxpayer funded home in Farnham as a lodger, a serious breach of the rules, and had to pay back £9,558.50. The commissioner considered it a serious matter that Mr Hunt allowed his constituency agent to stay with him in his second home rent-free while claiming the full costs from parliamentary allowances.
Hunt had to pay back £1,996 for claiming the expenses of his Farnham home whilst claiming the mortgage of his Hammersmith home. A further breach of the rules.
Hunt told the commissioner that he did not wish to pursue the argument in his letter of 24 June that he owned outright a proportion of the equity of his Farnham home and was therefore free to allow others to use the property to a similar proportionate extent. He agreed that "it is reasonable" for the rules of the House to cover the whole property.
Full report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmstnprv/157/15702.htm
In 2007 Hunt accidentally submitted the same claim twice for office supplies. He paid back the £659.75 in 2009.
Hunt overclaimed on council tax. He overclaimed by £635.48 during the period from May 2005 to March 2008. This was due to clerical mistakes, mainly claiming for 12 months when council tax is only charged for 10 months. Hunt therefore refunded the parliamentary authorities in 2009.
http://www.jeremyhunt.org/text.aspx?id=125
Hunt filed an expenses claim for one penny to cover the cost of a 12-second mobile phone call.
Hunt was one of the first ten MPs to hold a public meeting about his expenses, which was held in June 2009 at The Farnham Maltings. He is also one of the one hundred lowest claiming MPs, and publishes his expenses online.
Hillsborough Comments
Hunt attracted controversy for suggesting football hooliganism played a part in the death of 96 football fans in the Hillsborough disaster. He later apologised saying "I know that fan unrest played no part in the terrible events of April 1989 and I apologise to Liverpool fans and the families of those killed and injured in the Hillsborough disaster if my comments caused any offence."
Personal life
Hunt married Lucia in 2009. They have one son (born May 2010).
Hunt's wealth is estimated at £4.1m.. He is known to be a latin dancer in his spare time.
See also
References
- "No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010.
- "Privy Council appointments, 13 May 2010". Privy Council. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- A cup of tea (and rice wine) secures Chinese bride for dashing Tory Daily Mail, 3 January 2009
- "Jeremy Hunt's YouTube Channel". Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ^ Jeremy Hunt Conservative Party
- Who has voted YES? Debill Votes, 8 April 2010
- "Jeremy Hunt's Incidental Expenses Provision/Staff Allowance 2005-06, pp. 60, 63" (PDF). UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
- "The top ten funniest expenses claims". politics.co.uk. 19 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
- "Jeremy Hunt, Conservative MP for South West Surrey". TheyWorkForYou.com. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- "Jeremy Hunt 'sorry' over Hillsborough hooligans claim". BBC News. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
- JEREMY HUNT "ELATED" WITH LATEST ROLE Jeremy Hunt, May 2010
- Samira Shackle, Stephanie Hegarty and George Eaton The new ruling class New Statesman, 1 October 2009
- Glen Owen The coalition of millionaires: 23 of the 29 member of the new cabinet are worth more than £1m... and the Lib Dems are just as wealthy as the Tories Mail on Sunday, 23 May 2010
External links
- Jeremy Hunt MP Official constituency website
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Jeremy Hunt's YouTube Channel
- Profile: Jeremy Hunt BBC News
- Meet the MP BBC News, June 2005
- Audio clips
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded byVirginia Bottomley | Member of Parliament for South West Surrey 2005–present |
Incumbent |
Political offices | ||
Preceded byBen Bradshawas Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport 2010–present |
Incumbent |
Preceded byTessa Jowellas Minister of State for the Olympics | ||
Order of precedence in England and Wales | ||
Preceded byMichael Mooreas Secretary of State for Scotland | Gentlemen as Secretary of State for Scotland |
Succeeded byEdward Mark de Breteuil Devereuxas Heir Apparent to Viscount Hereford |
Order of precedence in Northern Ireland | ||
Preceded byMichael Mooreas Secretary of State for Scotland | Gentlemen as Secretary of State for Scotland |
Succeeded byEdward Mark de Breteuil Devereuxas Heir Apparent to Viscount Hereford |
Secretaries of state for culture, media and sport of the United Kingdom | |
---|---|
National Heritage (1992–1997) | |
Culture, Media and Sport (1997–2010) | |
Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (2010–2012) | |
Culture, Media and Sport (2012–2017) | |
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2017–2023) | |
Culture, Media and Sport (2023–present) |