Parliamentary Career
Tyrie contested Houghton and Washington in 1992. As Member of Parliament for Chichester, Tyrie has been involved locally, namely in supporting campaigns including the movement to prevent the Accident and Emergency Department at St Richard's Hospital from being downgraded.
In 2005, he became Founding Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, a group of politicians in the UK Parliament which examines the issue of extraordinary rendition and related issues. He has been a member of the Public Accounts Commission since 1997 and served on the 1922 Committee Executive between 2005-06. He served in Michael Howard's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury between November 2003-March 4 and thereafter as Shadow Paymaster General between March 2004 - May 5. He has been a member of many House of Commons Select Committees, namely the Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills (1997–2001), the Public Administration Select Committee (1997–2001), the Treasury Select Committee (2001–03; 09-; Chairman since 2010), the Treasury Sub-Committee (2001–04), the Constitutional Affairs Committee/Justice Select Committee (2005–2010), the Joint Committee on Conventions (2006), the Reform of the House of Commons Committee (2009–10), Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills (2009-; Chairman since 2010) and the Liaison Committee (2010-). On 10 June 2010, Tyrie was elected to chair the Treasury Select Committee, beating original favourite Michael Fallon to succeed John McFall. He also represents the United Kingdom in the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Tyrie is also a Council Member of the Centre for Policy Studies. He is a shareholder of the Veritas Asian Fund and Falcon Land Limited, and he sits on the Board of Directors of Rugby Estates.
Since his financial acumen is highly regarded by many, especially during straitened economic times, the Financial Times has speculated: "One possible reason why Mr Tyrie is still on the backbenches is that he irritated David Cameron by challenging his climate change policies. Mr Cameron did not ask him to become a Minister after the 2010 election and his nickname in senior Tory circles is 'Andrew Tiresome'". Nonetheless, Tyrie (like Cameron) is a member of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club.
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