Tim Yeo MP
Chair
Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
Tim Yeo has been MP for South Suffolk since 1983. He was a member of the Thatcher and Major Governments and as Minister of State for the Countryside and Environment, he reformed planning law, helped to develop climate change policy and established the now thriving Energy Saving Trust. Previously a member of the Shadow Cabinet, Mr Yeo resigned in 2005 to speak freely about issues such as the environment. From 2005 to 2010, Mr Yeo was Chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee and was elected Chair of the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee in 2010.
