Claire Perry

Claire Perry
MP

Claire Perry at an event in Southampton, welcoming the arrival of the first Class 800 train.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for Transport
Assumed office
15 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Stephen Hammond
Member of Parliament
for Devizes
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Michael Ancram
Majority 20,751 (42.3%)
Personal details
Born (1964-04-03) 3 April 1964
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England[1]
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Clayton Perry (separated)[2][3]
Children two daughters, one son
Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford,
Harvard University
Occupation MP for Devizes
Profession Financial
Website www.claireperry.org.uk

Claire Louise Perry[4] (born 3 April 1964) is a Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes, elected in the 2010 general election.

Early life

The youngest of three children, Perry was raised in North Somerset. Perry was educated at Nailsea School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where she read Geography, graduating in 1985. She later obtained an MBA at Harvard University.

Perry worked in banking and finance for Bank of America, McKinsey & Company and Credit Suisse.[5]

Political career

After joining the Conservative party in 2006, she worked for the Chancellor George Osborne.[6] Perry was selected in November 2009 as a Conservative candidate to replace the outgoing Member for Devizes, Michael Ancram, in a safe seat for her party.[7]

Appointments

In October 2011 Perry was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for Defence.[8] Perry held this role until October 2013 when she assumed her new position as Government Assistant Whip. On 15 July 2014 and again in May 2015 Claire Perry was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, with responsibility for rail fares, rail franchising, freight and logistics and transport agencies.[9]

Perry (left) in 2012

Bills

In June 2011, Perry presented a Private Members' Bill to Parliament calling for the Monday after Remembrance Sunday to be made a bank holiday.[10] The Bill passed its first reading and was due to be debated again on 20 January 2012 but Perry withdrew the bill on 10 January.[11]

Internet filtering

Perry is in favour of a form of Internet censorship which will apply to all users unless they opt out of it. She considers that children should thereby be prevented from obtaining access to information and images which she believes they should not see.[12][13][14] Perry is in favour of improvements in Internet content filters that give people an unavoidable choice about whether to install filters on their home networks. She advises the Prime Minister on the prevention of the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood.

In July 2013, Perry's website was targeted by hackers who "placed indecent images on the site". Perry used her official Twitter account to make accusations that the political blogger Paul Staines - known as Guido Fawkes - had sponsored the attack,[15][16] while Staines himself threatened to sue her for libel if the claim was not removed.[17]

After Internet filters started to be rolled out, news agencies reported that a wide range of non-pornographic websites were now being censored by UK ISPs as a result of false-positive results for blocked phrases, such as child-protection charities, women's charities, and gay rights groups. This list also reportedly includes Perry's own website, as a result of her frequent use of words such as "porn" and "sex" in web posts about her pro-censorship campaign.[18][19]

Controversy

Perry was criticised over a tweet rejoicing the defeat of UKIP candidate Mark Reckless [20][21]

Confusion over deficit vs debt

On 8 October 2012, Perry stated that the national debt and national deficit were the same thing on BBC Radio 5 Live.[22][23] Reference to this confusion was later made by David Dimbleby, when introducing her as a panelist on a following episode of Question Time.[24]

Personal life

Perry has three children with her husband, from whom she is divorced.[2] The family had a house in Broad Chalke near Salisbury, Wiltshire, and one in London.[3] After her separation she moved to the Pewsey Vale.[25]

References

  1. ↑ "Who's Who". Ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 Tim Walker (21 March 2013). "'Cameron cutie' Claire Perry gives up on 'difficult' marriage". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 Lewis Cowen (21 March 2013). "Devizes MP Claire Perry reveals that her marriage is over". Wiltshire Gazette & Herald. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 59418. p. 8746. 13 May 2010.
  5. ↑ at claireperry.org.uk
  6. ↑ Paul Barltrop, Claire Perry chosen for Devizes at news.bbc.co.uk
  7. ↑ ANNOUNCEMENT - PPC FOR THE DEVIZES CONSTITUENCY at devizesconservatives.com
  8. ↑ "About Claire | Claire's Biography". Claire Perry. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Claire Perry MP". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  10. ↑ Hope, Christopher (15 June 2011). "Day after Remembrance Sunday should be a Bank Holiday, MPs suggest". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "Parliament UK: Remembrance Day (Bank Holiday) Bill 2010-11". Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  12. ↑ "Internet Pornography: 23 Nov 2010: House of Commons debates". TheyWorkForYou. 23 November 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  13. ↑ Caroline Davies "Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect children", The Guardian, 19 December 2010
  14. ↑ "MP calls for pornography 'opt-in' to protect children", BBC News, 23 November 2010
  15. ↑ "Net block MP Claire Perry in spat over porn hack", BBC News, 24 July 2013
  16. ↑ Doctorow C Technologically illiterate MP who masterminded UK porn blocker gets hacked, threatens reporter for writing about it, boing boing, 24 July 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
  17. ↑ Josh Halliday "Guido Fawkes blogger threatens to sue Tory MP over hacking accusation", The Guardian, 24 July 2013
  18. ↑ Worstall, Tim (25 December 2013). "The Best Story Yet About The UK's Online Porn Filters". Forbes.
  19. ↑ Staff. "FSC's Duke Argues Against Censorship at UK Roundtable". Adult Video News. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  20. ↑ "General Election 2015 Ukip slur: Shame on Tory MP 'sexist' tweet". Telegraph. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  21. ↑ Jenn Selby (2015-05-08). "Tory candidate Claire Perry reacts to Mark Reckless defeat: 'Don't let the door hit your fat arse as you leave' - People - News". The Independent. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  22. ↑ "Prime Minister puts the twit back in Twitter...". Mail Online. 8 October 2012.
  23. ↑ "Boris on Best Behaviour…". http://order-order.com. Guido Fawkes. 8 October 2012. On Radio 5 this morning:
    Victoria Derbyshire: What is puzzling is, under Labour debt equals bad, under the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats national debt equals?
    Claire Perry: We have cut Labour’s deficit Victoria by a quarter
    Derbyshire: I’m talking about debt
    Perry: Well it is the same thing
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  24. ↑ "Question Time: as it happened 26th October". The Daily Telegraph. 26 October 2012.
  25. ↑ "Claire Perry, MP for Devizes - Fascinating to find out what changes are afoot". thisiswiltshire.co.uk. Newsquest. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2015.

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    Preceded by
    Michael Ancram    		 Member of Parliament for Devizes
    2010–present     		Incumbent
    Preceded by
    Stephen Hammond    		 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
    2014-–present     		Incumbent
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