Tony Baldry: Difference between revisions

Tony Baldry is a member of the Council of the [[Overseas Development Institute]], the Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development (Apgood),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apgood.org.uk/executive |title=Executive - All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development |publisher=Apgood.org.uk |date=25 July 2006 |access-date=16 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016132555/http://www.apgood.org.uk/executive |archive-date=16 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> a Trustee of Friends of Africa, which is a UK-based charity, and a Trustee of Afghan Action, a UK-based charity working in Afghanistan. He was one of eleven MPs to volunteer for the VSO's project PolVol in 2008.<ref>{{cite web

From 2001–05, Baldry chaired the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development. Since the summer of 2009, despite advocating and voting for repeal of the [[Human Rights Act 1998|Human Rights Act]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2012-12-04&number=115&mpn=Tony_Baldry&mpc=Banbury&house=commons | title=The Public Whip — Public Service Pensions Bill — Third Reading - 4 Dec 2012 at 18:59 | access-date=7 December 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211154435/http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2012-12-04&number=115&mpn=Tony_Baldry&mpc=Banbury&house=commons | archive-date=11 December 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref> Baldry has chaired the Conservative Party's Commission on [[Human rights|Human Rights]]