Philip Dunne | |
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Chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee | |
In office 29 January 2020 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Mary Creagh |
Succeeded by | Toby Perkins |
Minister of State for Health | |
In office 15 July 2016 – 9 January 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Mike O'Brien |
Succeeded by | Steve Barclay |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement | |
In office 4 September 2012 – 15 July 2016 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Peter Luff |
Succeeded by | Harriett Baldwin |
Member of Parliament for Ludlow | |
In office 5 May 2005 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Matthew Green |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Ludlow, Shropshire, England | 14 August 1958
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Domenica Dunne |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
Philip Martin Dunne (born 14 August 1958) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ludlow constituency in Shropshire from 2005 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
He has been a farmer since 1987, at his family's farm in Herefordshire, at Leintwardine. He was elected in 2001 as a councillor on the South Shropshire District Council, of which he was the Conservative leader in 2003–2005. He was also secretary of the Ludlow Conservative Association for a year in 2001.
Dunne served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement from 2012 to 2016 and as Minister of State for Health from 2016 to 2018.