Controversies
He had responsibility for food safety during the BSE scare in 1989-90, and worked to calm the public by eating a beefburger with his four-year-old daughter at the height of the crisis.
Along with many MPs, in 2009 Lord Deben attracted attention because of his parliamentary expense claims, approved by the Parliamentary Fees Office, in which he claimed for garden maintenance at his constituency home.
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