Richard Harrington has moved from the Department for Work and Pensions to the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, it has been revealed.

His departure from the DWP where he served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions follows the General Election last Thursday 8 June. Harrington served in the role from 17 July 2016, when Prime Minister Theresa May took over from David Cameron.

In Harrington’s departure, MP for Hexham Guy Opperman has been appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the DWP, however it is not yet confirmed that he will take on the pensions role.

Opperman was elected as an MP in May 2010 and he has previously served as a Private Parliamentary Secretary to Mark Harper, the then Immigration Minister. He also served as Assistant Government Whip in May 2015 until July 2016.

Prior to politics he spent 20 years as a barrister and was also director of his family’s engineering business until 2009.

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