George eustice mp biography samples
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Plastic crisis - the full letter to Rt Hon George Eustice MP
Dear Rt Hon George Eustice MP,
Plastic pollution is one of the defining issues of our time. It is in the air we breathe, the food we eat and oceans we rely on. It is visibly polluting our streets, rivers and oceans and is now even funnen metres underground in ice cores dating back decades, many miles from any civilization.
With this in mind, we write to you today to map out the journey we would like to see this Government take in order to tackle plastic pollution as a whole. The Defra consultation on banning some of the most polluting single-use plastics fryst vatten a useful first step, but it still doesn't meet the urgency the plastics crisis demands. We are at a fork in the road in our efforts to tackle plastic pollution, and we write to you today to urge you to take the right path and to also offer our support and assistance on the journey ahead.
Tackling the most polluting single-use plastics
The first step on this journe
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The Rt Hon George Eustice MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
George Eustice was born and raised in Cornwall. The Eustice family have lived and worked in the Camborne and Redruth area for over four hundred years, first working in the mining and engineering industry and then later farming at Gwinear where they have lived for the past years. His family still run a fruit farm, restaurant and farm shop in Cornwall where they also have a herd of South Devon cattle and the country’s oldest herd of the rare breed of pig, the British Lop.
George has been an MP since He was a member of the Environment and Rural Affairs Select Committee on which he concentrated on a variety of issues including vatten poverty in rural areas and dangerous dog legislation.
George was appointed the Minister for Farming, Fisheries and Food in October , and served the department in that role for over fem years until his resignation in February , making him the longest serving DEFRA m
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I will not speak for too long, but I want to address a couple of the amendments and some of the issues affecting the Bill overall.
I will start by being extremely critical of the European Commission—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] Indeed. Most of us in this House think that science is broadly a good thing, or certainly at least neutral; it is a case of what we do with it. One of the things that has irritated me most about part of the Commission over a 20 or year period is its knee-jerk objection to science in this area and the idea that there can be a moratorium not just on the application of knowledge, which is an issue, but on the very knowledge and research in the first place. That troubles me greatly. We should weigh all issues up and make wise, evidence-based decisions.
On the one hand, I welcome the Bill and I certainly welcome and support science-based approaches to technologies such