YEO, Tim

Member for Suffolk South since 1983. Committees: Chair, Environment Audit Select Committee since 2005; Member, Treasury Select Committee 1996-97; Member, Social Services Select Committee 1985-88; Joint Secretary of Conservative Party Backbench Finance Committee 1984-87. Political career: Shadow Secretary of State for Transport and the Environment 2004-05; Shadow Secretary of State for Public Services, Health and Education 2003-04; Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 2002-03; Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 2001-02; Shadow Minister of Agriculture 1998-2001; Frontbench Spokesperson on Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-98; Parliamentary Candidate for Bedwelty 1994; Minister of State for the Environment and the Countryside 1993-94; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health 1992-93; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment 1990-92; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary, 1988-90. Special political interests: Social services, rural issues, Third World. Profession/Trade: Director of the Spastics Society 1980-83. Education: Charterhouse; Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Affiliations: Chair, Tadworth Court Trust 1983-91; Chair, Charities VAT Reform Group 1981-90; Trustee, Tanzania Development Trust since 1980; Treasurer, International Voluntary Service 1975-78; led Campaign to save Tadworth Court Children-s Hospital, Surrey. Hobbies: Golf, skiing. b. 20 March 1945, London. Married with two children.