Tim Yeo

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Tim Yeo
Yeo in 2014
Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
In office
9 June 2010 – 30 March 2015[a]
Preceded byElliot Morley
Succeeded byAngus MacNeil
Minister of State for the Environment
In office
27 May 1993 – 6 January 1994
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byDavid Trippier
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
In office
15 April 1992 – 27 May 1993
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byThe Baroness Cumberlege
Succeeded byJohn Bowis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing
In office
28 November 1990 – 15 April 1992
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Member of Parliament
for South Suffolk
In office
9 June 1983 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byJames Cartlidge
Shadow Cabinet portfolios
1997–2001Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
2001–2002Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
2002–2003Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
2003–2004
2004–2005Shadow Secretary of State for Environment and Transport
Personal details
Born (1945-03-20) 20 March 1945 (age 79)
London, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseDiane Helen Pickard
Children4, including Jonathan
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge

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.
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