Anne-Marie Trevelyan

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This decision from the Secretary of State is incredibly welcome to all of us who have campaigned to protect our precious coastline, and the community in Druridge Bay who have had the spectre of this proposition hanging over them for a number of years. The Prime Minister was clear when he brought forward our goal to stop producing coal to 2024, that this Government will honour its commitments to a cleaner, greener future, and our target of net zero by 2050. This long-fought battle to protect our local environment has been a culmination of years of work by local people, groups and politicians of all parties, coming together to work for the future of their community and I pay tribute to everyone who has played their part in safeguarding our incredible landscape for future generations. [77]

Political campaign finances

Alleged overspending

In May 2016, it was reported that Trevelyan was one of a number of Conservative MPs being investigated by police in the 2015 general election party spending investigation, for allegedly spending more than the legal limit on constituency election campaign expenses. [78] In May 2017, the Crown Prosecution Service said that while there was evidence of inaccurate spending returns, it did not "meet the test" for further action. [79]

Donations from Alexander Temerko

In April 2018, Trevelyan was criticised by the Alnwick Labour Party over claims that a Ukrainian businessman gave almost £50,000 to fund her 2015 general election campaign. The Labour Party questioned why the Conservative Party was accepting large donations from such sources. Trevelyan stated that the man in question was now a naturalised British citizen born in Ukraine who had invested significantly in the region, while she had personally not received any funds from Alexander Temerko, with funds going to the Berwick-upon-Tweed Conservative Association, with Trevelyan commenting "as is his right as a British citzen". [80] [81]

Temerko was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (present-day Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union). [82] [ non-primary source needed ] He fled to London shortly after he was examined by criminal investigators in October 2004. [83]

Trevelyan's connections with Temerko caused her to step down from a Government project that involved him. In 2021, Temerko was responsible for a project to establish a cross-channel power cable to provide a electricity link between England's south coast and Normandy in France, and so Trevelyan recused herself from the project, Labour MP Catherine West said that Trevelyan "quite rightly recused herself". [84] [ non-primary source needed ] Fellow Conservative MP Alok Sharma also recused himself, leaving then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng responsible for the decision making. [85]

Personal life

Trevelyan lives in Northumberland. She is divorced with two teenage children, in October 2017, she said that one of her teenage sons might not have voted for her if he had been old enough to vote. [86] She previously lived in Netherwitton Hall, a Grade II listed country house near Morpeth [87] [88] with her former husband John Trevelyan, [89] owner of the Netherwitton Hall Estates. [90] [91]

She took part in the Singing for Syrians concert at Westminster in December 2017. [8]

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    Vicky Ford was later appointed Minister of State for Development in the FCDO on 6 September 2022
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
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Official portrait, 2021
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific
In office
26 October 2022 5 July 2024
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Berwick-upon-Tweed

2015–present
Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Defence Procurement
2019
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of State for the Armed Forces
2019–2020
Succeeded byas Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces
Preceded by Secretary of State for International Development
2020
Succeeded byas Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Preceded by Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth
2021
Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of State for International Trade
2021–2022
Succeeded by
President of the Board of Trade
2021–2022
Preceded by Secretary of State for Transport
2022
Succeeded by