Nick Hurd - Parliamentary Career

Parliamentary Career

The Hon Nick Hurd MP is Minister for Civil Society. He also serves as a member of the Environmental Audit Select Committee (EAC). The EAC remit is "to consider to what extent the policies and programmes of government departments and non-departmental public bodies contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development; to audit their performance against such targets as may be set for them by Her Majesty's Ministers; and to report thereon to the House." The EAC is tasked with monitoring the government and its agencies with regard to environmental protection and sustainability, and within this term of parliament, focussing particularly on climate change.

He was Chairman of the Climate Change sub-group of the Conservative Party's Quality of Life policy review commission, 2006-2008.

Nick Hurd MP came top in the Private Member's Bill ballot in November 2006, and introduced the Sustainable Communities Bill into the House of Commons. This achieved its third reading in June 2007 and after being passed by the House of Lords, the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 received Royal Assent in October 2007..

Nick Hurd MP was promoted by David Cameron to the Opposition Whips' office in July 2007. He served as Opposition Whip until his appointment as Shadow Minister for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering in October 2008.