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Andrew is 48 and married to Harriet and they have three girls.  They live in the South West Bedfordshire constituency in Studham near to Whipsnade Zoo.

Andrew is on the council of reference of South Bedfordshire Community Family Trust and is the President of the Leighton Buzzard branch of the Parkinson's Disease Society and Patron of Leighton-Linslade Homeless Service, Patron of Homestart Central Bedfordshire. He is a Patron of the Leighton Buzzard Brain Tumour Action charity. He was a Territorial Army officer for twelve years and served in Germany, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States of America.

Andrew qualified as a chartered insurer and worked as a reinsurance underwriter before being elected to Parliament.  His firm helped many of the world's poorest communities recover from natural disasters.

Andrew supports local homeless charities by taking part in annual sponsored sleep-outs, most recently in the grounds of St Albans Abbey last December.

Andrew's Experience

Elected to Parliament for South West Bedfordshire in 2001, he served on the Work and Pensions select committee for the whole of that Parliament.  In 2003 he was appointed parliamentary private secretary to the Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, the Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC MP.  In 2004 he was appointed an opposition whip and in 2006 he was appointed a shadow work and pensions minister.  He has taken the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill and the Health and Safety Offences Bill through the House of Commons.

He chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Relationships, which works to strengthen marriages and family relationships.

In May 2010, Andrew was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP.