Tim Yeo
Tim Yeo | |
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 Yeo in 2014 | |
| Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee | |
| In office 9 June 2010 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Elliot Morley |
| Succeeded by | Angus MacNeil |
| Chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee | |
| In office 15 December 2005 – 6 May 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Ainsworth |
| Succeeded by | Joan Walley |
| Minister of State for the Environment | |
| In office 27 May 1993 – 6 January 1994 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | David Trippier |
| Succeeded by | Robert Atkins |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security | |
| In office 15 April 1992 – 27 May 1993 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Cumberlege |
| Succeeded by | John Bowis |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing | |
| In office 28 November 1990 – 15 April 1992 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Member of Parliament for South Suffolk | |
| In office 9 June 1983 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | James Cartlidge |
| Shadow Cabinet portfolios | |
| 1998–2001 | Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| 2001–2002 | Culture, Media and Sport |
| 2002–2003 | Trade and Industry |
| 2003–2004 | |
| 2004–2005 | Environment and Transport |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 March 1945 London, England |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Diane Helen Pickard |
| Children | 4, including Jonathan |
| Alma mater | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
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alma_mater which should be merged with/replaced by education.Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo (born 20 March 1945) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of South Suffolk between the 1983 United Kingdom general election and that of 2015, when he was deselected by his constituency party.
Yeo served as the Minister for the Environment and Countryside from 1993 to 1994 in the government of Prime Minister John Major. He also served in the Shadow Cabinet from 1998 to 2005 under Conservative Party leaders William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.