Jim Dowd
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Jim Dowd has been Labour Party MP for Lewisham West since 2007.
In the 2015 general election, Dowd retained his seat with a healthy 51 per cent of the vote and a majority of 12,714 over his closest rival Russell Jackson.
APPG controversy
In 2007 Dowd was listed as a 'parliamentary patron' to TOAST (The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust), a charity that acted as a front for the weight loss industry.[1] In response to a letter of enquiry Dowd stated that as far as he was aware he had not been approached to be a patron and while he had met with representatives of TOAST, he did not act in any advisory or 'patron' capacity.[2]
In a later email Dowd wrote:
- Further to our telephone conversation I can confirm that I have no recollection of ever being asked, or agreeing to serve as a Patron of TOAST. In any event, apart from attending one or more of their occasional receptions at the Commons, I cannot recall any other direct contact with them - except for the appearance of one of their members as a witness before the Health Select Committee. I was also unaware of the source of any their of funding as, so far as I can understand it, were the other members of the committee who took part in the enquiry into obesity, to whom I have spoken.[3]
Notes
- ↑ This list of patrons remained on the TOAST website as of 18 December 2007: Parliamentary Patrons, accessed 18 December 2007.
- ↑ Telephone conversation between Jim Dowd and David Miller, 18 December 2007
- ↑ From: Jim Dowd [1] Sent: 28 December 2007 14:13 To: David Miller Subject: Fw: TOAST
