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|name = Rebecca Pow |honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} |office = Member of Parliament for Taunton Deane |image = Official portrait of Rebecca Pow crop 2.jpg |term_start = 8 May 2015 |term_end = |predecessor = Jeremy Browne |successor = |majority = 15,887 (25.2%) |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|10|10|df=y}} |birth_place = Somerset, United Kingdom |death_date = |death_place = |party = Conservative |website = {{url|rebeccapow.org.uk|Official website}} }}Rebecca Faye Clark, known as Rebecca Pow,[1] (born 10 October 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton Deane in May 2015 with a majority of just under 15,500 and was re-elected in 2017, with an increased vote share of 4.3% and a majority of 15,887.[2] EducationAfter attending Priston village school Rebecca continued her education at La Sainte Union Convent in Bath. After a gap year she gained a BSc (Hons) 2.1 from Wye College, University of London, in Rural Environment Studies. Personal lifePow was brought up on a family farm in Inglesbatch near Bath, working on the farm throughout her teenage years. She was an active member of both Bath and Taunton Young Farmers Club where she met her husband, Charles Clark. They have been married for 27 years and have 3 children. Pre Parliamentary careerRebecca was a Governor at Thurlbear C of E school for 10 years and a Parish Councillor in her local village, Stoke St Mary. She had a career in radio and television, including working for HTV in Bristol and BBC Radio 4. Rebecca also ran the Taste of Somerset, the first independent initiative for local food and drink producers which ultimately became The Taste of the West. In 2003 Rebecca took voluntary redundancy from ITV West to set up Pow Productions, specialising in communications and PR focusing on rural, environmental, farming, food and gardening in particular. Political careerStanding for election to Parliament for the first time in May 2015, Pow became the MP for Taunton Deane, gaining the seat from the sitting Liberal Democrat MP Jeremy Browne with a majority of 15,491 votes (26.8% of the vote). In July 2016, Pow was made Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Gavin Barwell MP, Minister for Housing, Planning and Minister for London in the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Pow supported the Conservative Government's moves to cap welfare, improve education and opportunities for young people, control immigration, deal with the deficit and enable people to be given the right climate to get on. She described herself as "a traditional Conservative with a twist of the contemporary with [her] own added touch of green!"[3] Pow was selected by a capacity audience at an Open Primary held in Taunton in July 2013. It was the first time a candidate had been selected for the constituency in this way, with the audience voting. She was also the first female Conservative Member of Parliament that Taunton Deane had ever had representing them. She declared that she would vote Remain in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.[4] Pow was previously a parish councillor in Stoke St Mary and trustee of the Somerset Wildlife Trust. After working for the National Farmers Union, she became a journalist specialising in environment, farming and gardening and has reported for BBC, ITV and Channel 4.[5][6][7][8] She stepped down as vice-president of Somerset Wildlife Trust in June 2018, following an online petition criticising her support for badger culling.[9] During the 2015–17 parliament, Pow sat on the Environmental Audit Select Committee and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.[10] She declared that she would vote Remain in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.[4] After Theresa May called the 2017 general election, Pow announced she would seek reelection as MP for Taunton Deane. On 8th June 2017, she was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Taunton Deane, with an increased vote share of 4.8% and a majority of 15,887 votes. Pow received heavy criticism for claiming during the 2017 Budget debate that people in Taunton have "thousands of extra pounds in their pockets". This was disputed by the majority of her constituents and many believe she was out of touch with real people.[11][12] In 2018, Pow was awarded a Green Heart Hero Award by The Climate Coalition, a coalition of over 100 charities and community groups across the UK, for being the "Greenest New MP" for her environmental work.[13] However, she was criticised for her stances on fracking, the destruction of ancient woodland for HS2, and the vast amount of new homes being built in her constituency. [14] Pow serves as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. References1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=61230 |date=18 May 2015 |page=9125}} 2. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000988 | title=Taunton Deane | publisher=BBC News| accessdate=7 May 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rebeccapow.org.uk/about-me|title=About Me}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.rebeccapow.org.uk/european-referendum|title=European Referendum|website=Rebecca Pow|access-date=2016-06-23}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Election Taunton Deane result: Conservative Rebecca Pow|url=http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Election-Taunton-Deane-result-Conservative/story-26461420-detail/story.html|accessdate=9 May 2015|work=Western Daily Press|date=8 May 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Rebecca Pow|url=https://www.conservatives.com/OurTeam/Prospective_Parliamentary_Candidates/Pow_Rebecca|publisher=Conservative Party|accessdate=9 May 2015}} 7. ^{{cite news|last1=Wright|first1=Oliver|title=Why it’s harder than it looks to evict a Liberal Democrat MP|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/why-its-harder-than-it-looks-to-evict-a-liberal-democrat-mp-9328588.html|accessdate=9 May 2015|work=Independent|date=6 May 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Rebecca Pow|url=http://www.gardenmediaguild.co.uk/guild-members/directory/profile/Rebecca-Pow/273|publisher=Garden Media Guild|accessdate=9 May 2015}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/16309216.rebecca-pow-mp-resigns-from-somerset-wildlife-trust/|title=Taunton's MP and Michael Eavis resign as vice presidents of wildlife trust amid badger cull row|website=Somerset County Gazette}} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/rebecca-pow/4522 |title=Rebecca Pow MP |website=UK Parliament |accessdate=10 October 2015}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/heres-everyone-mad-taunton-deane-826186 |title=Here's why everyone is mad at Taunton Deane MP Rebecca Pow for comments she made about the budget |last=Linham |first=Laura |website=Somerset Live |date=24 November 2017 |accessdate=24 November 2017}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/poverty-tory-ideas-budget |title=Such is the poverty of Tory ideas that they deny poverty even exists |last=Williams |first=Zoe |newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 November 2017 |accessdate=9 April 2018}} 13. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/green-heart-hero/ |title=Green Heart Hero Awards |work=The Climate Coalition|accessdate=9 April 2018}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/16245189.letter-is-mp-rebecca-pow-really-that-green/|title=LETTER: Is MP Rebecca Pow really that green?|website=Somerset County Gazette}} External links
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