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Commons Committee chairs announced

As Parliament regroups after the snap election, the names of the chairs of Parliament's influential, cross-party Select Committees have been listed.

Some have been newly elected to the posts by their fellow MPs, others returned without opposition. The following may be especially relevant to Sustain members:

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Rachel Reeves (Labour)
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Neil Parish (Conservative)
Exiting the EU: Hilary Benn (Labour)
Environmental Audit: Mary Creagh (Labour)
Health: Sarah Wollaston (Conservative)

Read the full list here.

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Lindy Sharpe
Former Digest Editor Lindy Sharpe has now left Sustain.

Lindy Sharpe is a writer and researcher on food policy. She worked on Sustain’s Food Poverty Project 20 years ago, and returned to edit Digest, the online news bulletin.

In between, she continued her career as a journalist, worked as a staff researcher at the Centre for Food policy at City University in London, produced a report called An Inconvenient Sandwich for the new economics foundation, and looked after her children.

She originally studied English Literature at Oxford University, and subsequently did a Master’s in Food Policy. As a journalist, she worked as an editor and contributor at The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and The Observer. She is currently completing a PhD at City University on the social aspects of sustainability in the food supply.

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