Caroline Spelman
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The Right Honourable Dame Caroline Spelman DBE MP |
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| Second Church Estates Commissioner | |
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Assumed office 21 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Tony Baldry |
| Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Hilary Benn |
| Succeeded by | Owen Paterson |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
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In office 19 January 2009 – 12 May 2010 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Eric Pickles |
| Succeeded by | John Denham |
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In office 15 March 2004 – 2 July 2007 |
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| Leader |
Michael Howard David Cameron |
| Preceded by | David Curry (Local and Devolved Government Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Eric Pickles |
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 2 July 2007 – 19 January 2009 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Francis Maude |
| Succeeded by | Eric Pickles |
| Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment | |
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In office 10 November 2003 – 15 March 2004 |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | David Lidington (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Richard Ottaway |
| Shadow Minister for Women | |
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In office 14 September 2001 – 15 March 2004 |
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| Leader |
Iain Duncan Smith Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Theresa May |
| Succeeded by | Eleanor Laing |
| Shadow Secretary of State for International Development | |
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In office 18 September 2001 – 10 November 2003 |
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| Leader | Iain Duncan Smith |
| Preceded by | Gary Streeter |
| Succeeded by | John Bercow |
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Member of Parliament for Meriden |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Iain Mills |
| Majority | 16,253 (31.2%) |
| Personal details | |
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Caroline Alice Cormack 4 May 1958 Bishop's Stortford, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Spelman |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary University of London |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
| Website | Official website |
Dame Caroline Alice Spelman DBE (née Cormack; born 4 May 1958) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands since 1997. From May 2010 to September 2012 she was the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
Born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Spelman attended Herts and Essex High School for Girls (now called The Hertfordshire and Essex High School), in Warwick Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and received a BA First Class in European Studies from Queen Mary College, University of London.
She was Sugar Beet commodity secretary for the National Farmer's Union from 1981 to 1984. She was deputy director of the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (officially known as La Confédération Internationale des Betteraviers Européens – CIBE) in Paris from 1984–9, then a research fellow for the Centre for European Agricultural Studies (part of the University of Kent and since 2000 known as the Centre for European Agri-Environmental Economics) from 1989 to 1993. She co-owns Spelman, Cormack & Associates, a lobbying firm for the food and biotechnology industry, with her husband.
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