Parliamentary Career
Beresford was selected to fight the safe Conservative seat of Croydon Central following the retirement of former Cabinet minister John Moore. Beresford was elected at the 1992 General Election and made his maiden speech on 30 June 1992.
He entered the Major Government in 1994 as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment and remained until the Government was defeated in 1997. When the number of seats in Croydon was reduced from four to three before the 1997 General Election, he failed to be selected for the newly-drawn Croydon Central and instead fought Mole Valley in Surrey, where he was elected in 1997. Croydon Central fell to Labour.
Prior to the 2010 General Election Beresford was a member of the Communities & Local Government Select Committee.
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