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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Lord Deben |honorific-suffix = PC |image = John Gummer 2006-03-01.jpg |caption = |office = Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions |leader = John Major |term_start = 2 May 1997 |term_end = 11 June 1997 |predecessor = John Prescott (Environment) |successor = Norman Fowler |office1 = Secretary of State for the Environment |primeminister1 = John Major |term_start1 = 27 May 1993 |term_end1 = 2 May 1997 |predecessor1 = Michael Howard |successor1 = John Prescott (Environment, Transport and the Regions) |office2 = Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |primeminister2 = Margaret Thatcher John Major |term_start2 = 24 July 1989 |term_end2 = 27 May 1993 |predecessor2 = John MacGregor |successor2 = Gillian Shephard |office3 = Chairman of the Conservative Party |leader3 = Margaret Thatcher |term_start3 = 11 June 1983 |term_end3 = 2 September 1985 |predecessor3 = Cecil Parkinson |successor3 = Norman Tebbit |office4 = Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal Eye (1979–1983) |term_start4 = 4 May 1979 |term_end4 = 12 April 2010 |predecessor4 = Harwood Harrison |successor4 = Therese Coffey |office5 = Member of Parliament for Lewisham West |term_start5 = 18 June 1970 |term_end5 = 28 February 1974 |predecessor5 = James Dickens |successor5 = Christopher Price |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|11|26|df=y}} |birth_place = Stockport, Cheshire, England |death_date = |death_place = |party = Conservative |spouse = Penelope Gardner |alma_mater = Selwyn College, Cambridge |religion = Roman Catholicism |website = }}John Selwyn Gummer, Baron Deben, PC (born 26 November 1939 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a British Conservative Party politician, formerly Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and now a member of the House of Lords.[1] Lord Deben is Chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change. He also chairs the sustainability consultancy Sancroft International, recycler Valpak,[2] GLOBE International – the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment, the Association of Professional Financial Advisers and Veolia Water UK.[3] He is a non-executive director of Veolia Voda, The Catholic Herald and the Castle Trust – a mortgage and investment firm.[1] He is also a trustee of the ocean conservation charity, Blue Marine Foundation.[2] Gummer stood down from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election and was appointed to the House of Lords as Lord Deben.[3] Early lifeThe eldest son of a Church of England priest, Canon Selwyn Gummer,[4] his younger brother is Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington, a PR professional. Gummer attended King's School, Rochester, before going to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History. Whilst there, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and later President of the Cambridge Union Society, he was a member of what became known as the Cambridge Mafia – a group of future Conservative Cabinet ministers, including Leon Brittan, Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Norman Lamont, and Norman Fowler. Public lifeElectionsFirst elected to Parliament at the 1970 general election, where he defeated sitting MP James Dickens in Lewisham West, Gummer had previously contested Greenwich in 1964 and 1966. He was unseated in February 1974 by Labour's Christopher Price who achieved a 3.4% swing compared with a 1.3% swing to Labour nationally, deciding not to stand for the seat in the second election that year. In 1979, he returned to the House of Commons, securing Eye in Suffolk, following the retirement of veteran Tory MP Harwood Harrison. He held the constituency and its successor Suffolk Coastal until his retirement from the Commons in 2010. In GovernmentGummer was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture in Edward Heath's government, before being appointed Conservative Party Vice-Chairman – a position he held until the government's fall in 1974. Following his return to the House in the 1979 election, he held various government posts and was Conservative Party Chairman from 1983 to 1985 – an office he held at the time of the Brighton hotel bombing during the 1984 Conservative Party conference. He joined the Cabinet in 1989 as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, moving to become Secretary of State for the Environment under John Major in 1993.[5] As Environment Secretary he introduced the Environment Act 1995 and the Landfill Tax, which was the first such environmental tax in the UK. The BBC Wildlife magazine described him as the "Environment Secretary against which all others are judged",[6] placing him as one of its top ten environmental heroes. In 1997, he was also awarded the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Medal.[7] and Friends of the Earth described his as "the best Environment Secretary we've ever had".[8] He had responsibility for food safety during the mad cow disease epidemic in 1989–90 which eventually claimed 176 British lives. At the height of the crisis in May 1990, he attempted to refute the growing evidence for BSE/Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease by feeding his four-year-old daughter a burger before press cameras.[9][10][11] Gummer opposed reduction of beds at the Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital.[12] In oppositionFollowing the 1997 Labour election victory he became a backbencher and chairman of the All-Party Group on Architecture and Planning. During this time he pursued environmental causes, introducing an Early Day Motion on Climate Change to Parliament along with Michael Meacher and Norman Baker.[13] He was also instrumental in the passing of the Climate Change Act of 2008. Because of his environmental credentials, in 2005 David Cameron asked Gummer to chair the Quality of Life Policy Group with Zac Goldsmith as his deputy.[14] In 2009, Gummer was involved in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, after claiming £36,000 for gardening over four years, as an parliamentary expense. Although the claims were encouraged and initially approved by the Parliamentary Fees Office, rules state claims should only be made on expenses essential to parliamentary duties. He repaid £11,538 for gardening and household bills and donated £11,500 to charity, saying that he was paying above the minimum required in order to demonstrate "corporate social responsibility" for the expenses system.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} Subsequently, the Legg Report showed that 343 MPs had been asked to repay some money with Gummer paying the seventh highest figure.[15][16] House of LordsIt was announced that Gummer would be awarded a peerage in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List. On 21 June he was created a Life Peer as Baron Deben, of Winston in the County of Suffolk. His title is named after the River Deben. He was introduced in the House of Lords the same day, supported by his brother, Lord Chadlington, and the composer Lord Lloyd-Webber.[17] As a pro-European moderate, Lord Deben supported Kenneth Clarke's leadership bids.[18] In September 2012, Lord Deben was confirmed as Chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change, succeeding Adair, Lord Turner. The committee advises the UK Government on setting and meeting carbon budgets and on preparing for the impacts of climate change. Personal lifeLord Deben has been married to Penelope Gardner since 1977, and lives in Suffolk. They have four children, including Ben Gummer, who was MP for Ipswich from 2010, until he lost his seat in 2017. He converted to the Catholic Church in 1992, having previously been a practising Anglican and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England. He has been supportive of the creation of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham for former Anglicans who have, like him, joined the Catholic Church, including serving as an Honorary Vice-President of the Friends of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.[19][20] In July 2018 He was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc) from the University of East Anglia.[21] Styles of address
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References1. ^[https://www.castletrust.co.uk/about-us/ www.castletrust.co.uk] [23][24][25]2. ^www.bluemarinefoundation.com 3. ^www.parliament.uk 4. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/apr/20/guardianobituaries Canon Gummer's obituary in The Independent] 5. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-gummer www.theguardian.com] 6. ^www.discoverwildlife.com 7. ^www.rspb.org.uk 8. ^www.foe.co.uk 9. ^{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/369625.stm | title=John Gummer: Beef eater | publisher=BBC News Online | date=11 October 2000}} 10. ^{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8668504.stm | title=Waving goodbye to Parliament | publisher=BBC News Online | date=7 May 2010}} 11. ^{{YouTube|0VAyCXKmPGM}} 12. ^"The Threat to Aldeburgh Hospital: an Update from John Gummer". http://www.ixxi.co.uk/lof/gummer.pdf 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=28373 |title=UK Parliament – Early Day Motions By Details |publisher=Edmi.parliament.uk |date=24 May 2005 |accessdate=29 April 2010}} 14. ^Quality of Life Challenge {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428112238/http://www.qualityoflifechallenge.com/ |date=28 April 2007 }} 15. ^{{cite web|date=4 February 2010|title=Review of past ACA payments|last=|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmmemest/348/348.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=House of Commons Members Estimate Committee|doi=|accessdate=5 February 2010}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8493634.stm?table=repay&order=asc#mprepayments|title=Full list of MPs' expenses repayments ..in order of amount repayable|publisher=BBC news|date=4 February 2010|accessdate=1 April 2010}} 17. ^[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/100621-0001.htm#1006214000407 House of Lords Debates 21 June 2010 v 719 c 1159] 18. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6911521/John-Gummer-mole-charge-MP-to-quit-Parliament.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Rosa | last=Prince | title=John Gummer: mole charge MP to quit Parliament | date=30 December 2009}} 19. ^{{cite web|title=About|url=http://friendsoftheordinariate.org.uk/about-us/|website=Friends of the Ordinariate|accessdate=16 October 2014}} 20. ^{{cite news|title=Minister to the Ministers|url=http://content.yudu.com/A1qu25/TheTablet/resources/15.htm|accessdate=16 October 2014|work=The Tablet|date=29 January 2011}} 21. ^http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2018-07-16/honorary-degrees-to-be-given-to-three-former-cabinet-ministers/ 22. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/john_gummer/suffolk_coastal#register |title=John Gummer MP, Suffolk Coastal |publisher=TheyWorkForYou|date= |accessdate=29 April 2010}} 23. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.valpak.co.uk/about-us/our-company-structure | title = Company Structure | publisher = Valpak | date = 16 March 2014 | accessdate = 16 March 2014 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140316143319/http://www.valpak.co.uk/about-us/our-company-structure | archivedate = 16 March 2014 | quote = Since then we have expanded our services to cover wider areas of sustainability including waste management and recycling, carbon management, energy management and international compliance. … Board Member Position The Rt Hon John Gummer Lord Deben }} 24. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.veoliawater.co.uk/en/about-us/our-board/ | title = Our Board | publisher = Veolia | date = 2011 | accessdate = 16 March 2014 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20111007120442/http://www.veoliawater.co.uk/about-us/our-board/ | archivedate = 7 October 2011 | quote = Our Board The Rt Hon. John Gummer, Lord Deben, Chairman of the Veolia Water UK board }} 25. ^1 {{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-john-gummer-not-as-daft-as-he-acts-1598227.html | title = Profile: John Gummer: Not as daft as he acts He can charm and he's lucky, so what holds him back? | last = Castle | first = Stephen | publisher = The Independent | date = 27 August 1995 | accessdate = | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140316132448/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-john-gummer-not-as-daft-as-he-acts-1598227.html | archivedate=16 March 2014| quote = JOHN SELWYN GUMMER was born into a church family in Stockport in 1939. His father, Canon Selwyn Gummer (the sons were given his Christian name), was a vicar there, later becoming Canon of Rochester Cathedral. They remain close: Canon Gummer lives with the Gummers and invariably appears in the Commons to hear environment questions. A younger brother, Peter, is now chairman of Shandwick, one of the world's largest public relations firms and a paid-up member of the Tory great and good. | location=London }} }} External links
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