Jamie Hamilton Wallis is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the member of Parliament for Bridgend in Wales since the 2019 general election.
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Jamie Wallis defeated incumbent Labour MP Madeleine Moon, who had represented the constituency since 2005.
Prior to venturing into politics, Jamie Wallis was one of the owners of a company called Fields Holdings Limited, the parent company of Action Direct (UK) Limited, a former claims management company of which Wallis was a director in 2011, when the Ministry of Justice banned it from taking on any further employment claims work, following an investigation into the company’s conduct.
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In July 2010, a Freedom of Information request (2417) was made to Bridgend County Borough Council (BCBC) asking how many complaints or referrals to Trading Standards had been made about a Field House associated company Rapid Data Recovery Ltd, which returned the response that between 1 January 2009 and mid-2010, 37 complaints had been received, a figure which included associated companies.
In January 2020, after being elected to Parliament, Jamie Wallis threatened to take legal action against BCBC over the matter under the Freedom of Information Act.
At the time of the December 2019 general election, Jamie Wallis was married to Rebecca and they have two daughters, then aged six and three.
However, on 30 March 2022, Jamie Wallis came out as transgender, becoming the first openly transgender MP in the House of Commons.
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