Philip Dunne (Ludlow MP)
Philip Dunne | |
|---|---|
| Chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee | |
| In office 29 January 2020 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mary Creagh |
| Succeeded by | Toby Perkins |
| Minister of State for Health | |
| In office 15 July 2016 – 9 January 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Mike O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Steve Barclay |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement | |
| In office 4 September 2012 – 15 July 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Peter Luff |
| Succeeded by | Harriett Baldwin |
| Member of Parliament for Ludlow | |
| In office 5 May 2005 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Matthew Green |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 August 1958 Ludlow, Shropshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Domenica Dunne |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
Philip Martin Dunne (born 14 August 1958) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ludlow constituency in Shropshire from 2005 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
He has been a farmer since 1987, at his family's farm in Herefordshire, at Leintwardine. He was elected in 2001 as a councillor on the South Shropshire District Council, of which he was the Conservative leader in 2003–2005. He was also secretary of the Ludlow Conservative Association for a year in 2001.
Dunne served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement from 2012 to 2016 and as Minister of State for Health from 2016 to 2018.
In June 2020, Dunne's contact details were found in an address book belonging to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.