Amber Rudd: Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Amber Rudd was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on 11 May 2015. She was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change from July 2014 until May 2015. She was elected Conservative MP for Hastings & Rye on 6 May 2010.

From 2010 to 2012 she was a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. She then served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2012 to 2013, and as Assistant Whip from October 2013.

Graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in history, Amber Rudd worked in investment banking in the City of London and New York, before moving into venture capital. She then set up a freelance recruitment business and wrote for financial publications, before being elected to Parliament in May 2010.

A selection of Amber Rudd’s votes. (Source: theyworkforyou.com)

• Voted a mixture of for and against measures to prevent climate change
• Voted very strongly against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
• Voted strongly for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the “bedroom tax”)
• Voted strongly for reducing central government funding of local government
• Voted strongly for fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Voted a mixture of for and against a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU
• Voted moderately for more EU integration
• Amber Rudd voted very strongly for selling England’s state owned forests

Votes by issue:

• Social issues
• Constitutional reform
  

Photo: DECC via Flickr

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