Following the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband recently announced his new Shadow DECC team. The Rt Hon Caroline Flint MP is now Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. She is supported in the Commons by Tom Greatrex MP as Shadow Energy Minister and Luciana Berger MP as Shadow Junior Energy and Climate Change Minister. In the Lords, Caroline is supported by the Rt Hon Baroness Smith as Shadow Spokesperson. Below is some information on each of them:
Caroline Flint MP
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Constituency: Don Valley
First elected: 1997
Former Posts:
Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Minister for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Minister for Housing
Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform
Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber
Minister for Public Health, first as Parliamentary Under Secretary and then as Minister of State
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office
Previous House of Commons Committees:
Education & Employment Committee (1997-9)
Administration Committee (2002-3)
Modernisation Committee (2002-3)
All Party Groups
Member, All Party Parliamentary Childcare Group (Founded this Group, Chair 1998-03)
Member, All Party Coalfield Communities Group
Member, Trade Union Group
Member, GMB Group
Environmental Stance
According to The Public Whip (http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40206&dmp=1030), Caroline has voted ambiguously on policies to redress climate change since 2001.
As Minister for Housing she shortlisted 15 locations for future eco-towns. Since then the funding for the scheme has been cut by 50%, and only one of the proposed sites is currently being developed to the original standards.
Tom Greatrex MP
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Constituency: Rutherglen & Hamilton West
First Elected: 2010
Previous Posts:
Shadow Scotland Office Minister
Previous House of Commons Committees:
Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
Luciana Berger MP
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Constituency: Liverpool Wavertree
First Elected: 2010
Previous Posts:
Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change
Baroness Smith of Basildon
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Previous Roles:
MP for Basildon 1997-2010
Rt Hon Baroness (Angela) Smith of Basildon
Northern Ireland Minister
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Minister for the Third Sector
Environmental Stance
According to The Public Whip ( http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=101041&dmp=1030), Angela has voted moderately in favour of policies to redress climate change since 2001.