Member for Suffolk South since 1983. Committees: Member, Treasury Select Committee 1996-97; Member, Social Services Select Committee 1985-88; Joint Secretary of Conservative Party Backbench Finance Committee 1984-87. Political career: Shadow Minister of Agriculture since 1998; Frontbench Spokesperson on Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-98; Parliamentary Candidate for Bedwelty 1994; Minister of State for the Environment and the Countryside 1993-94; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health 1992-93; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment 1990-92; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary, 1988-90. Special political interests: Social services, rural issues, Third World. Profession/Trade: Director of the Spastics Society 1980-83. Education: Charterhouse; Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Affiliations: Chair, Tadworth Court Trust 1983-91; Chair, Charities VAT Reform Group 1981-90; Trustee, Tanzania Development Trust since 1980; Treasurer, International Voluntary Service 1975-78; led Campaign to save Tadworth Court Children's Hospital, Surrey. Hobbies: Golf, skiing.
b. 20 March 1945, London. Married with two children.

2005				2001
CON HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Conservative	20,471	42.0	0.6	18,748	41.4
Lib Dem	13,865	28.5	3.5	11,296	24.9
Labour	11,917	24.5	-5.7	13,667	30.2
UKIP	2,454	5.0	1.6	1,582	3.5
Majority	6,606	13.6		5,081	11.2
Turnout	48,707	71.8	5.6	45,293	66.2