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	John Gummer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Gummer is the son of a Baptist Church cum Church of England canon and parson, and was educated at the Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School in Brompton, London; The King's School, Rochester and Selwyn College, Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 followed by a master's degree.
		Gummer was re-elected to parliament at the 1979 General Election for the Suffolk seat of Eye following the retirement of the veteran Tory MP Harwood Harrison, who was so veteran he could barely give his wife any lovin' no more.
		Gummer argued that planning is never a good idea and that he would personally prefer a more spontaneous style very much like his approach to the game of chess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Gummer (1705 words)

	Rt Hon John Gummer MP
		John Gummer began his schooling at Holy Trinity C of E Primary School in Brompton from where he went to the King's School in Rochester.
		John was the UK Environmental Secretary from 1993-1997 where he played a key role in the "Convention on Climate Change" meetings held in Berlin and Geneva.
		John Gummer is first and foremost a constituency MP and much enjoys that part of Parliamentary life.
	www.johngummer.org.uk /record.jsp?ID=2&type=page (448 words)

	GMWatch.org
		For those outside the UK, John Gummer is the minister who fed a hamburger to his reluctant daughter in an effort to persuade the public that there were no human health concerns arising from mad cow disease.
		Gummer suggested this fact should be used by farmers to bolster their case for consumers favouring home-produced food, where labelling played an important part.
		Gummer reminded his audience that he was the minister in charge when the environment agency was established with 9,000 staff and the aim of halving that number by contracting out functions.
	www.gmwatch.org /archive2.asp?arcid=72 (1048 words)

	ipedia.com: John Major Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Right Honourable John Major CH is a British politician and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997, attaining that office when he succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Conservative party leader.
		John Major has been a member of Carlyle Group's European Advisory Board since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of Carlyle Europe in May 2001.
		John Major's appearance was noted in its greyness, and in his prodigious philtrum, both of which were exaggerated in caricatures.
	www.ipedia.com /john_major.html (2001 words)

	BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
		GUMMER: Well I think that the judgement of that has got to be a rather wider one, and one of the parts of that judgement is the legal judgement.
		GUMMER: Well that is not what the reason for this is. The reason for raising the question of cost benefit is because in the meantime, with the enormous support of the green agencies, we have signed up to sustainable development.
		GUMMER: Everytime I try to say this you come back with a dispute and because of that I have said: because they dispute it I am, therefore, perfectly happy to look at the ways in which we can allay their fears.
	www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext94-95/Gummer13.11.94.html (2113 words)

	Country Life : Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Gummer talks about why he is not giving up the fight for the right to continue building country houses in Britain, and why the Government's planning proposals discriminate against the wealthy.
		We are discussing the Government's plans to take out the exception clause in PPG7 which allows for new country houses to be built as long as the architecture and landscape design are 'truly outstanding,' and he is passionately against this decision.
		Mr Gummer is pointing out the amount of country houses the exceptions clause sanctions is next to none as it is, so there can be no worries about the countryside being swamped in new buildings.
	www.countrylife.co.uk /lifecountry/gummerint.php (583 words)

	Experts debate future of Kyoto Protocol - by Henry Lamb - The Heartland Institute
		John Gummer, MP continued to press for completion of the Kyoto Protocol in a heated debate at the National Press Club on February 8, 2001, in the year's first event sponsored by the Freedom 21 Campaign.
		Gummer is widely recognized around the world as an outspoken advocate for the Kyoto Protocol.
		Gummer also said Great Britain has a volume of records and maps that illustrate how waters have risen over the past 400 years, and that most of the rise has occurred during the past 20 years.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=1147 (929 words)

	Press advisory: Changes to MSC Board
		Mr Gummer’s chairmanship started in February 1998 — one year after the MSC was founded — and spanned the period when it grew from an unknown organisation into a modern and effective group running an internationally recognised ‘gold standard’ eco-label programme for sustainable fishing.
		“To have John Gummer as Chairman of the MSC during the organisation’s first eight years was a tremendous coup that established and sustained MSC’s reputation as an innovative and serious player linking sustainable fishing practices to consumer demand.
		John’s personal and tireless commitment to the MSC’s vision of sustainable fishing practices and his determined leadership of the Board have won the respect and gratitude of everyone involved, and we sincerely thank him.”
	www.msc.org /html/ni_157.htm (388 words)

	Gummer: why I gave my daughter a burger
		JOHN GUMMER said yesterday that he told the public beef was safe to eat at the peak of the BSE epidemic after considering advice from the Government's scientific experts, then asking himself whether he would let his children eat it.
		The Tory former Agriculture Minister, who gave his daughter Cordelia a burger in full view of press on May 16, 1990, during a wave of publicity about the dangers of mad cow disease, told the BSE Inquiry in London that he only fed beef to his family because he was convinced that it was safe.
		Mr Gummer said he had felt no reservations about the statement and noted that despite later comments which appeared to show "hesitation" on Sir Donald's part about the safety of beef, none of this was ever communicated to him.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/12/09/ngum09.html (542 words)

	John MacGregor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For other uses of "John MacGregor", see John MacGregor (disambiguation).
		The Right Honourable John Roddick Russell MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, PC (born February 14, 1937), is a politician in the United Kingdom.
		He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, then at the University of St Andrews and at King's College London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_MacGregor (276 words)

	GUMMER OF GREAT BRITAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Gummer, (former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries) is among those who wish to deny Norway access to the European Union because of whaling.
		On Gummer's speech about whales in Parliament a few days before the announced cabinet changes where Gummer was in danger of losing his seat.
		Comment by the Norwegian Minister of the Environment, Thorbjørn Berntsen, after Gummer had refused to discuss the acid rain problem on the grounds of the Norwegian minke whale harvest.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Policies/National/gu-of-g.htm (457 words)

	Gummer to play key role against euro policy
		JOHN Gummer, the former Tory chairman, has emerged as a key behind-the-scenes figure in the campaign for a vote against the party leadership in William Hague's ballot on Conservative Euro-policy.
		A spokesman for Mr Gummer denied that the former Cabinet minister was intending to lead the campaign against Mr Hague's position but confirmed that the CGE had organised the leaflet.
		Mr Woodard said: "The CGE wanted to make sure it was written properly and John Gummer asked if they could liaise with me to do that." The group will meet tomorrow to decide how to take forward the campaign for a No vote in the ballot.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/09/15/ntor15.html (507 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| John Gummer: A Whitehall ragbag that's bad for greens
		The fact that he was not a cabinet minister was unjust but, with John Prescott as deputy prime minister, not inhibiting.
		Without such a clarion call, we shall have to conclude that for this government and this prime minister, the environment is no longer a driving force but has been quietly put out to pasture.
		• John Gummer is Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,517023,00.html (829 words)

	3/4/2006 -- John Gummer: 'Climate change should be the top priority for governments of the industrialised world'
		John Gummer, the Conservatives' Mr Climate Change, was out driving yesterday, in a seven-seater four-by-four, the type of vehicle whose owners were punished in Gordon Brown's budget for damaging the environment.
		Mr Gummer thinks the governments of the industrialised world should have it at the top of their political agendas to limit their own carbon emissions.
		Mr Gummer thinks that there are a whole range of practical things, from developing clean coal technology to rewriting the rules about house building, which can deliver what Mr Cameron wants.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=54727 (1190 words)

	Land-use struggles (fwd)
		His conclusions were that the Trust did have a need to live on the land and since their dwellings caused no visual or highways impact, he saw no reason to refuse planning permission.
		However, the Inspector's decision was immediately overturned by the Secratary of State, John Gummer [Conservative] (who had never been anywhere near the site).
		Gummer has set a precedent in British planning law (excluding Scotland) which may have serious ramifications for future British permaculturists seeking planning permission for integrated rural land-use.
	www.ibiblio.org /london/agriculture/forums/sustainable-agriculture2/msg01654.html (498 words)

	19980313 "Exorcising Construction"
		Gummer is probably looking for a dinner invite, so look sharp you Mowlem and Laing folk.
		The reason Gummer was saying all this was that a handful of MPs had sat down in committee to consider the final piece of the jigsaw that makes up the Construction Act.
		Because Gummer and his fellow parliamentarians have made up their minds that fiddles are out.
	www.tonybingham.co.uk /column/1998/19980313.htm (817 words)

	Land-use struggles
		The main reason he gave for refusing planning permission was that the Bubblers were subsistence farmers, "...carrying out an experiment in living simply on the land and deriving a subsistence living from it, a pattern of living which is sometimes called 'permaculture'.
		Furthermore, there is ample evidence to prove that Tinkers Bubble is not, in fact practicing subsistence agriculture at all, since last Autumn, the Trust exported a cash crop of some 15 tonnes of apples to the local cider industry.
		No matter which part of the planet you inhabit, please unite with British brothers and sisters in this global movement, and support our course by writing to John Gummer, stating that he is wrong, and that you feel very concerned about the effect this could have, and why you feel permaculture is so important.
	www.ibiblio.org /london/agriculture/forums/sustainable-agriculture/msg00714.html (528 words)

	Monbiot.com » Blog Archive » Enemy of the Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Every year, John Gummer and his junior ministers have set out on trade missions with the directors of British construction companies.
		In 1995 and 1996, Gummer helped sell their wares in Israel and the occupied territories, India, the Philippines, Syria, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru: countries not exactly renowned for matching development to the needs of people and the environment.
		We environmentalists chose to regard John Gummer as a man hemmed in by dinosaurs, desperately struggling with the ante-diluvian attitudes of his cabinet colleagues.
	www.monbiot.com /archives/1997/02/01/enemy-of-the-earth (1102 words)

	New Scientist Premium- Government faces both ways on Thorp - This Week
		John Major and five Cabinet ministers last week backed an amendment in the House of Commons calling for the thermal oxide reprocessing plant (Thorp) at Sellafield to be commissioned 'at the earliest practicable date'.
		On the same day, the environment minister, John Gummer, announced 'a further round of consultation' to discuss whether the operation of Thorp is still justified.
		But, as Gummer acknowledged, there is a widely held view that the original justifications for the plant - which will separate out plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel - have disappeared.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg13918810.700.html (275 words)

	RAF Bentwaters RAF Woodbridge Twin Bases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer said that he had meetings with Fred Mouawad, who accepted that he needs to deal fairly with people wanting to buy homes, but he is hampered by legal proceedings.
		Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer has said the legal matters prevent anyone from the developers speaking on the matter but he understood an out of court settlement was being sought to minimise delay.
		John Gummer, MP, said he was delighted, and claimed that recent meetings he had organised, had helped achieve the sale.
	www.bentwaters.org /history/news1997.htm (5051 words)

	Conservative Party - Profile
		John was a Conservative cabinet Minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
		He was a significant player in the reform of the UN Environment Programme and in the Commission on Sustainable Development.
		When the Labour Party took office, John was included in the United Kingdom's delegation to the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (the Earth Summit +5) and subsequently to the Climate Change Conference in Kyoto and Buenos Aires.
	www.conservatives.com /people/person.cfm?PersonID=4598 (337 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| John Gummer: Beef eater
		Probably the most derided politician to emerge out of the BSE scandal, John Gummer will always be remembered for making great public show of feeding his four-year-old daughter Cordelia a hamburger in the midst of the "mad cow" disease scare.
		The press photographed Mr Gummer - then Agriculture Minister in the Conservative government - tucking into the burger with his little girl at a boat show in Suffolk on May 6 1990.
		But Mr Gummer, a committed Christian and son of a well-known Church of England clergyman, insisted he always acted in the best interest of the consumer - using his own family as a benchmark.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/369625.stm (485 words)

	AIFA Announces Successor To Lord Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) today (28 November) announced that John Gummer MP has been appointed to succeed Lord Hunt of Wirral as Chairman of the Association.
		John Gummer was Margaret Thatcher's Chairman of the Conservative Party and for 16 years a minister, ending up as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and then Secretary of State for the Environment.
		The Association of Independent Financial Advisers will provide for IFAs a favourable environment by representing and promoting the concept of independent financial advice, by establishing a forum for discussion on non-competitive issues and by the provision of information which will assist in the running of their businesses.
	www.aifa.net /publicnews/pressreleases/lordhunt_281102.htm (430 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Key players in the BSE crisis
		Implemented offals ban determined by his predecessor John MacGregor in 1989 but told the inquiry that he understood it was not something that had to be done on human health grounds.
		His forlorn appearance topped by distinctive hat provided one of the BSE crisis's most enduring images as the government struggled to contain the damage after admitting a probable link between the cattle epidemic and the emergence of a deadly new human disease.
		He is accused of telling the then agriculture minister, John Gummer, that there was no link between a cat with a BSE-like illness and mad cow disease.
	www.guardian.co.uk /bse/article/0,2763,388740,00.html (1060 words)

	JOHN GUMMER
		JOHN GUMMER - A CONSERVATIVE - SPEAKING IN THE COMMONS ON THE ASYLUM BILL
		Mr Gummer articulates much of the thoughtful criticism made of the Bill.
		It is a disgrace and I hope that the House of Commons throws out what should never have been presented to it.
	www.aviddetention.org.uk /gummer.htm (1469 words)

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