Rebecca Pow

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Rebecca Pow
Member of Parliament
for Taunton Deane
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Preceded byJeremy Browne
Majority15,491 (26.8%)
Personal details
Born (1960-10-10) 10 October 1960 (age 63)
Somerset, United Kingdom
Political partyConservative
WebsiteOfficial website

Rebecca Faye Clark, known as Rebecca Pow,[1] is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton Deane since May 2015.[2]

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 worked as a journalist specialising in environment, farming and gardening and has reported for BBC, ITV and Channel 4.[3][4][5][6]

She sits on the Environmental Audit Select Committee and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.[7]

She declared that she would vote Remain in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.[8]

References

  1. ^ "No. 61230". The London Gazette. 18 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Taunton Deane". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Election Taunton Deane result: Conservative Rebecca Pow". Western Daily Press. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Rebecca Pow". Conservative Party. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  5. ^ Wright, Oliver (6 May 2014). "Why it's harder than it looks to evict a Liberal Democrat MP". Independent. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Rebecca Pow". Garden Media Guild. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Rebecca Pow MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  8. ^ "European Referendum". Rebecca Pow. Retrieved 23 June 2016.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Taunton Deane

2015–present
Incumbent