Nicola Blackwood

Biography

Nicola Blackwood was elected as Conservative MP for Oxford West & Abingdon on 6th May 2010 with a majority of 176.

Nicola was born in 1979 in Johannesburg Nicola now lives in Summertown, is a Governor at her local special school and has just been trained as a Domestic Violence Champion.

She is a member of the Home Affairs 2010- and Joint Committee on Draft Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill 2012- committees.

Nicola was trained as a classical singer at Trinity College of Music from the age of 14 (and home schooled for her GCSE's and A-Levels in Oxford) before gaining a First in Music at St Anne's College and an M.Phil. in Musicology from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Although Nicola didn't get involved in student politics, she spent part of a gap year volunteering with aid projects in the Middle East which led to a role advising the Conservative International Development team - and since then she has volunteered with aid projects in Mozambique, Rwanda, Bangladesh.

Nicola is also on the Council of Advisors for ZANE, a charity which seeks to support pensioners in Zimbabwe. In addition to her Human Rights work, Nicola was one of the original team which set up the Conservative Party Social Action Project.

Constituency

Oxford West and Abingdon

Twitter

twitter.com/nicolablackwood

Constituency Address

No constituency office

Constituency Tel

No constituency office

Date of Birth

1979

Email

nicola.blackwood.mp@parliament.uk

Party

Conservatives

Personal Website

www.nicolablackwood.com

Westminster Address

House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel

0207 219 7126

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