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  1. ↑ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, Access to Nature and Biosecurity from May 2021 to September 2022 and Natural Environment, Water and Rural Affairs from June 2010 to October 2013.
  2. ↑ Sat as an independent while the Conservative whip was suspended from 3 September to 28 October 2019

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