Elizabeth Truss
Elizabeth Truss is the UK Conservative Party MP for South West Norfolk and has been a government minister since 2012.
Truss was appointed a parliamentary under-secretary in the Department for Education in 2012.[1] In the UK prime minister's July 2014 re-shuffle she was appointed secretary of state at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.[2]
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Background
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]
She became an MP in 2010 and was re-elected in the 2015 general election with a majority of 13,861. [4]
Pushing fracking
Two months after being appointed environment secretary in July 2014, Truss appeared before the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. There she repeated the Coalition government's mantra that 'provided [fracking] is carried out in a responsible manner people can have confidence in it'. There was a need, she said to 'demystify' it.
- We need to do a good job in explaining to the public. There can be misinformation out there. It is our job to explain. People need to understand the evidence behind policy', she said.
Events
In June 2015 Truss attended lobbyists Westbourne Communications' summer party at the ICA in London. [5] Westbourne counts among its clients the controversial fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources, which a few weeks later suffered a blow to its shale exploration plans when Lancashire County Council rejected its applications at two sites in the region.
Special advisers
Former
Gifts
In September 2013, Truss was gifted a box at Norwich City Football Club for her and her husband, valued at about £2,000.[7]
Resources
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- 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
