Runnymede and Weybridge MP made Transport Secretary (From Surrey Comet)

Runnymede and Weybridge MP made Transport Secretary

8:50am Thursday 13th May 2010

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Runnymede and Weybridge MP Philip Hammond has been named Transport Secretary in the new cabinet.

Mr Hammond, who was elected in 1997, was initially a member of the Conservative shadow health team before going on to serve as trade and industry spokesman.

A former director of companies supplying medical equipment, he went to shadow the now-defunct Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2002 and local government department before being made shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2007.

But it is not in what is thought to be his preferred office of the Treasury where the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition chose to install him.