JACK, Michael Rt Hon

Date of election to Parliament 1987. Committees: Chair, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee; Member, Agriculture Select Committee; former Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Transport Committee; Chair, Backbench Horticultural Committee; Secretary of the Conservative North West Members Group. Political career: Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1997-98; Opposition Frontbench Spokesperson on Health 1997-98; Financial Secretary to HM Treasury 1995; Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1993-95; Minister of State at the Home Office 1992-93; Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security 1990-92; former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon John Gummer; National Chair of the Young Conservatives 1976. Education: Bradford Grammar School; Bradford Technical College; Leicester University, BA Economics, MPhil Transport Economics. Hobbies: Sailing, motorsport, growing vegetables, travel, boule, cycling. b. 1946. Married with two children.