- by Trevor Loveday
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee appoints interim chair
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee has appointed Labour MP, Geraint Davies as its interim chair.
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Davies (pictured) will chair meetings until "a new substantive chair is elected by the House". Details of the election of the new chair will be announced by "in due course."
A new chair for the committee was required following the resignation last week of Neil Parish as a Member of Parliament.