Owen Paterson

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Person.png Owen Paterson   WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
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BornOwen William Paterson
1956-06-24
Whitchurch, Shropshire, England
Alma materCorpus Christi College (Cambridge), University of Northampton
ReligionAnglicanism
Children • Felix Ned
• Evie
SpouseRose Ridley
Member ofBruges Group, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
PartyConservative

Employment.png Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

In office
4 September 2012 - 14 July 2014
Preceded byCaroline Spelman
Succeeded byLiz Truss

Employment.png Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
12 May 2010 - 4 September 2012
Preceded byShaun Woodward
Succeeded byTheresa Villiers

Employment.png Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
2 July 2007 - 11 May 2010
Preceded byDavid Lidington
Succeeded byShaun Woodward

Employment.png Member of Parliament for North Shropshire

In office
1 May 1997 - Present
Preceded byJohn Biffen

Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956) is a Conservative Party politician who was the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2014. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for North Shropshire at the UK/1997 General Election.

Owen Paterson was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron in 2007 as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. During the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, he was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland,[1] where he remained until being moved to DEFRA in 2012. He has since been more widely known as a leading supporter of Brexit and an outspoken critic of the European Union.

Brexiteer

In 2014, Owen Paterson established and became the Chairman of UK 2020, a right-wing think tank based in Westminster. In 2016, Paterson joined the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave.[2]

Paterson as Consultant

Since being returned to the backbenches Paterson has gained substantial income from a range of consultancy activities.

Besides his salary as an MP, Paterson is reported to earn £8,333 a month for a monthly commitment of 16 hours from Randox Laboratories, Northern Ireland.[3] In March 2020, Metro News reported that Randox has been selling a rapid ‘COVID-19 home testing kit’ priced at £120 which purports to be ‘the only test in the world that can identify the lethal strain and differentiate between other non-lethal variants with the same symptoms’.[4]

Paterson also receives £2,000 for 4 hrs every other month (24 hrs a year) to a total of £12,000 per annum from Lynn's Country Foods Ltd, a Northern Ireland based processor and distributor of sausages. He received payment of £4,399.06 from the Northern Ireland Meat Exporters Association Ltd for a single speech.[5]

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