Member for Suffolk Coastal since 1983. Political career: Secretary of State for the Environment 1993-97; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1989-93; Minister of State, Department of the Environment 1988; Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1985; Privy Counsellor 1985; Paymaster General 1984-85; Chair, Conservative Party 1983-85; Minister of State, Department of Employment 1983-84; Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury 1982; Member for Lewisham West 1970-74.
Education: King's School, Rochester; Selwyn College, Oxford, Honours Degree, History. Author of: When the Coloured People Come; The Permissive Society. Co-author of: Faith in Politics.
b. 1939. Married, with four children.

2005				2001
CON HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Conservative	23,415	44.6	1.2	21,847	43.3
Labour	13,730	26.1	-8.6	17,521	34.8
Lib Dem	11,637	22.1	3.9	9,192	18.2
UKIP	2,020	3.8	0.2	1,847	3.7
Green	1,755	3.3	-	-	-
Majority	9,685	18.4		4,326	8.6
Turnout	52,557	67.9	1.5	50,407	66.4