Harriett has served as Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire since her election in 2010.
The confirmation announcement was made at the launch of the Conservative party’s West Midlands European Parliament election campaign today (Friday April 25).
Harriett won the seat with a majority of 6,854 and has focused her energy in Westminster on local campaigns to help her constituents, including faster broadband, fairer funding for Worcestershire schools, fairer fuel duty, tax-free childcare, scrapping Labour’s Regional Spatial Strategies, and the delivery of six new flood defence schemes.
She has served as an adviser in the Department for Work and Pensions overseeing major reforms to make work pay. She has recently joined the Government as an Assistant Whip.
Harriett commented: “I am honoured to be selected by my local Association to stand again for the seat of West Worcestershire at the next General Election. As a hard-working local MP I have tried to ensure residents can contact me easily at my weekly surgeries, where I’ve helped well over a thousand people in face-to-face meetings.
“I have set up a Malvern office with an excellent local casework team who’ve helped me reply to tens of thousands of letters from local residents. I try to be out and about listening to local people as much as I can.
“I am grateful for the support of my Association and their extensive group of volunteers. With their backing I’ll be working hard for a Conservative majority Government that can continue to deliver jobs, growth, lower taxes and deficit reduction for a more prosperous future.”
Conservative Party Association Chairman Harry Tanner added: “Harriett is an outstanding local MP and has done sterling work representing local people as well as receiving recognition for her hard work by achieving promotion to the Government.
“She has battled hard to make sure that West Worcestershire has a strong voice in Parliament and at the highest levels of Government and I am confident that she is the right choice to continue this task.”