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PADDY TIPPING MP
Chairman of PGES
- Labour Member for Sherwood since 1992
- His constituency combines rural areas and colliery villages, and contains the Thoresby colliery
- Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary (Rt Hon Jack Straw) 1997-98; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (Rt Hon Jack Straw) 2005-2007
- Parliamentary Secretary at the Privy Council Office and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons 1998-June 2001; Deputy Leader of the House of Commons 2007
- Chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
- Chairman of the East Midlands Regional Select Committee
- Member of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Standards & Privileges Committee
- Vice President of the National Ramblers Association
- Enthusiastic member – and former Officer – of the Group since joining its offshore visit to Chevron’s Ninian Central field in 1992
- Returned to the chair of the Group in July 2002
Deputy Chairmen
Simon Hughes MP, Robert Key MP, Dr Ashok Kumar CEng FIChemE MP, Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, Lord Skelmersdale, Rt Hon Lord Whitty
Hon Treasurers
Rt Hon Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC, Ian Stewart MP
Hon Secretaries
Michael Clapham MP, Ian Liddell-Grainger MP
European Officer
Giles Chichester MEP
Membership Officer
Robert Lane CBE
Council Members
Tim Boswell MP, Christopher Chope OBE MP, Linda Gilroy MP, Matthew Gordon, David Green OBE, John Grogan MP, Dr Simon Harrison, Charles Hendry MP, David Jefferies CBE FEng, Joan MacNaughton CB, Michael Roberts OBE, Graham Ward CBE, Glenis Willmott MEP, John Wybrew
Executive Secretary
Christine Stewart Munro
- Former Councillor: London Borough of Camden
- Former researcher to backbench Members of Parliament
- Founding Administrative Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Chemical Industry
- Founding Executive Secretary of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies
- Founder and Editor of Energy Focus
- Founding Administrative Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Building Societies and Financial Mutuals
- Hon. Fellow of the Energy Institute
- Patron of the Government Affairs Group
- Trustee of two charities, and an Inland Revenue Commissioner until their abolition in 2009