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Kelly was then employed by his family's business, Keltruck Ltd - a ] truck dealership based in ] - serving as marketing director from 2006 to 2010. He is now a paid non-executive director of his father's company. <ref name="financial-interests">{{Cite news |date=6 September 2010 |url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/100927/kelly_chris.htm|title=The Register of Members' Financial Interests: Part 1|work=House of Commons}}</ref> Kelly was then employed by his family's business, Keltruck Ltd - a ] truck dealership based in ] - serving as marketing director from 2006 to 2010. He is now a paid non-executive director of his father's company. <ref name="financial-interests">{{Cite news |date=6 September 2010 |url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/100927/kelly_chris.htm|title=The Register of Members' Financial Interests: Part 1|work=House of Commons}}</ref>


In 2010 Kelly attracted criticism for emailing all his fellow Conservative MPs from his Parliamentary email account urging them to give his sister a secretarial or managerial job. The incident occurred in the wake of new rules curbing MPs employment of family members with Labour MP ] suggesting Kelly had abused his position.<ref name=autogenerated2></ref> <ref></ref> In 2010 Kelly was criticised for emailing fellow Conservative MPs asking them to employ his sister. The incident occurred after new rules curbed MPs employment of family members.<ref></ref>


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For other people named Christopher Kelly, see Christopher Kelly (disambiguation).
Chris KellyMP
Member of Parliament
for Dudley South
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byIan Pearson
Majority3,856 (10.1%)
Personal details
Born1978 (age 45–46)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Alma materOxford Brookes University, Imperial College Business School

Christopher Kelly (born 1978), known as Chris Kelly, is a Conservative Party politician in England. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Dudley South constituency in the West Midlands of England. He was elected to Parliament at the 2010 general election in the constituency represented for the previous 16 years by Labour's Ian Pearson. He is a member of the European Scrutiny Committee, an ambassador for the charity Heropreneurs and founder Chairman of both the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Family Business and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Combating Metal Theft.

Education

Kelly was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School in the Black Country, West Midlands 1989-96, followed by Oxford Brookes University, where he was a History and Politics student 1996-1999, and Imperial College Business School in 2002/3 where he gained an MBA.

Career

After business school, Kelly worked as research assistant for Michael Howard in 2004/5 whilst the latter served as Leader of the Conservative Party.

Kelly was selected as the Conservative candidate for Dudley South in September 2007.

Kelly was then employed by his family's business, Keltruck Ltd - a Scania truck dealership based in West Bromwich - serving as marketing director from 2006 to 2010. He is now a paid non-executive director of his father's company.

In 2010 Kelly was criticised for emailing fellow Conservative MPs asking them to employ his sister. The incident occurred after new rules curbed MPs employment of family members.

References

  1. "The Register of Members' Financial Interests: Part 1". House of Commons. 6 September 2010.
  2. MP used Commons email account to seek job for his sister (From Stourbridge News)

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