Editing Andy Slaughter (section)

===In government===
He was appointed [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] (PPS) to [[Stephen Ladyman]] MP, Minister of State for the [[Department for Transport]] and served from November 2005 to June 2007. In June 2007, he was appointed PPS to [[Lord Malloch-Brown]], [[Minister of State]] at the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], and also served as PPS to [[Lord Digby Jones]], Minister of State at the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and [[Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform]], and between July 2007 and October 2008.

On 27 January 2009, he resigned his PPS role as he opposed the Government's plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://iwc2.labouronline.org/166818/andy_resigns_heathrow |title=Andy Slaughter resigns from the Government over Heathrow expansion |author=Slaughter, Andy |date=27 January 2009 |access-date=27 January 2009 |publisher=Andy Slaughter }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>