Elizabeth Truss
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Elizabeth Truss has been the Conservative Party MP for South West Norfolk since 2010. She was appointed a parliamentary under-secretary in the Department for Education in 2012.[1]
She has worked as the secretary of state at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since July 2014.[2]
Truss previously worked as deputy director at Reform, a think tank whose declared mission is 'to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity.' [3]
In the 2015 general election, Truss was re-elected with a majority of 13,861. [4]
Gifts
In September 2013, Truss was gifted a box at Norwich City Football Club for her and her husband, valued at about £2,000.[5]
Events
- In June 2015 Truss attended lobbyists Westbourne Communications' summer party at the ICA in London. [6]
Special advisers
Former
Resources
See: Fracking Spads
- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Elizabeth Truss, www.parliament.uk, accessed 25 August 2013.
- ↑ Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
- ↑ Overview Reform, accessed 23 April 2015
- ↑ Elizabeth Truss Express, accessed 19 May 2015
- ↑ Annabelle Dickson Second jobs and party donations from energy firms, IT and property companies - what has your MP declared in the latest MP’s register of interests? Eastern Daily Press, 29 October 2014, accessed 20 February 2015
- ↑ James Bethell, Westbourne’s Summer Party demonstrates how the terms have changed, Westbourne website, 4 June 2015
- ↑ MWW The UK Government, November 2014, accessed 4 May 2015.
