Neil Parish
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Neil Parish MP |
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| Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee | |
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Assumed office 18 June 2015 |
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Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Honiton |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Angela Browning |
| Majority | 20,173 (37.5%) |
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Member of the European Parliament for South West England |
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In office 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Julie Girling |
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26 May 1956 Bridgwater, Somerset, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Parish |
| Website | www |
Neil Quentin Gordon Parish (born 26 May 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tiverton and Honiton and was elected at the 2010 general election. He had been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 1999 to 2009.
On 18 June 2015 Parish was elected Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee for the 2015 Parliament.
He was born in Somerset and went to Brymore School (now Brymore Academy), a local authority run agricultural boarding school at Cannington near Bridgwater. He left school at 16 to manage the family farm.
Parish began his career in politics in local government, serving as a Parish, District and County Councillor. In the 1997 general election he contested Torfaen in Wales. He was soundly defeated by 24,536 votes.
Parish was elected to the European Parliament in the 1999 European Parliament election for the South West England region. He was re-elected in 2004 on the top of the Conservatives' party list.
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