^ Elgot, Jessica Mason, Rowena (2 October 2016)."Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?". ^ "Flick joins Department for Work and Pensions".^ "New MP Flick Drummond stands down as Tory PCC candidate".The Honourable Ladies : Volume II: Profiles of Women MPs 1997-2019. The Future of Education, One Nation Conservatives (2020).Brexit and Beyond edited by George Freeman MP – chapter on Coastal Communities (2019).Women Returners, Annual report for Women and Work APPG (2016).No Blame Game - The Future for Children's Social Workers for the Conservative Party Commission on Social Workers (October 2007).Drummond has also served as Chair of Governors at Milton Park Primary School and a trustee of Salterns Academy Trust in Portsmouth. Before entering politics Drummond was a lay inspector for Ofsted. Personal life ĭrummond is married with four children. She stated in 2016 that the referendum result diminished and would lessen Britain's influence in Europe. Drummond is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies and has completed two terms on the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme.ĭrummond campaigned to remain in the European Union in the 2016 Referendum. She is co-chair of the APPG on Yemen.įlick Drummond is particularly interested in education policy and foreign affairs, in particular the Middle East. She is currently Chair of APPGs on Wine of Great Britain, Women and Work, and Women, Peace and Security. In October 2022, Drummond was appointed to the Commons Public Accounts Committee and the Education Select Committee. The group calls for close, strategic relationships with Europe, advocating for a close relationship with European institutions. Since January 2021, Drummond has served as one of two vice-chairwomen of the Conservative European Forum, which replaced the Conservative Group for Europe. īetween February and September 2020 Drummond served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Anne-Marie Trevelyan as Secretary of State for International Development before becoming PPS to Thérèse Coffey at the Department for Work and Pensions. She then stood down as the Conservative candidate to become the Hampshire Police and crime commissioner in the 2020 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections. She returned to Parliament at the December 2019 general election after the incumbent George Hollingbery retired. In November 2019, Drummond was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the safe Conservative seat of Meon Valley, in Eastern Hampshire. In October 2018, Drummond was elected Voluntary Director of the Conservative Policy Forum by the National Conservative Convention. She also established the Cybersecurity APPG.ĭrummond was defeated in a further marginal result at the 2017 general election, one of thirty net gains by the opposing Labour Party. With Jess Phillips, she set up the Women and Work APPG which she currently co-chairs. In the 2015 general election, she succeeded the incumbent, Mike Hancock as Member of Parliament in Portsmouth South, having come second to him in the 2010 general election.ĭuring the 2015 Parliament Drummond was a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee. Having returned in 2004, Drummond was selected to stand for Parliament in Southampton Itchen in 2005, coming second to Labour's John Denham. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meon Valley since 2019, having previously represented Portsmouth South from 2015 to 2017.ĭrummond sat on Winchester City Council from 1996 to 2000, before leaving to accompany her husband to work in the United States. Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond (born 16 June 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician.
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