Elizabeth Truss

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Elizabeth Truss

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]

Special advisers

Resources

See: Fracking lobbying firms

See: Fracking Spads

Notes

  1. Elizabeth Truss, www.parliament.uk, accessed 25 August 2013.
  2. Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
  3. Overview Reform, accessed 23 April 2015
  4. Elizabeth Truss Express, accessed 19 May 2015
  5. 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
  6. MWW The UK Government, November 2014, accessed 4 May 2015.