Joan Ruddock MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Climate Change, Biodiversity and Waste)
Joan Ruddock's responsibilities cover climate change, waste and recycling, biodiversity.
Responsibilities
- Climate Change Bill
- Domestic Climate Change Adaptation
- Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Citizen Engagement
- Environmental Transformation Fund International
- Waste and Recycling
- Environment Council Deputy
- Sponsorship of Kew
- Biodiversity
- Ecosystems Services
- Environmental Regulation
- Domestic Forestry
Biography
Joan Ruddock has been the MP for Lewisham, Deptford since 1987.
She has introduced a number of Bills to Parliament, including the Organic Food and Farming Targets Bill. In November 2002 she won a place in the Private Members Ballot and took forward the Household Waste Recycling Bill. Now an Act of Parliament, it requires all local authorities to ensure that every household has a collection of at least two types of recyclable waste by the year 2010.
In the last parliament she sat on two Select Committees – the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee and the Modernisation Select Committee. Until her appointment she was a member of the International Development Select Committee. She is a Vice President of Globe International, and a Vice President of SERA, the Socialist Environment and Resources Association. She piloted a Private Members Bill on Flytipping through Parliament, which became the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act in 1989.
She attended Pontypool Grammar School for Girls in Wales, and has a degree from Imperial College, London.
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25 March 2008
Page published: 2 July 2007