WHO'S WHO
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer Peer
Address:
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
Email: millers@parliament.uk
BIOGRAPHY
Sue Miller went to the Quaker school, Sidcot in Somerset and Oxford Polytechnic where she studied book publishing. Her subsequent career in books included working for Penguin, David and Charles and Weindenfeld and Nicolson and ten years as the joint proprietor of two bookshops.
Elected as a councillor, she served at parish, district and county (1987-2005). South Somerset District Council won the first ever Council of the year under her leadership for its radical decentralisation. At Somerset County Council she concentrated on rural strategy.
She was nominated a Life Peer in 1998 becoming Party Spokesperson in the Lords on Agriculture and Rural Affairs from 1999 to 2007. She has now been appointed spokesman on Home Affairs.
Other positions and interests include - joint Chair of the APPG on Street Children,a vice president of the Council for National Parks and of BTCV, Chairman of Somerset Food Links and President of Food Links UK. Latin American countries are also a particular interest.
She believes the House of Lords plays an essential role in British democracy but that it must become a more balanced chamber in terms of age, gender and regional representation and be reformed to become an elected chamber.
She lives in Bideford, Devon where she and Humphrey spend any free time gardening (vegetables), sailing, walking and reading.
Publications include:
Stuck or
Spiked? – outlining ways in which British consumers and
businesses lose out from Government failure to back an eco-labelling
scheme.
Click here to
read the report in full (Word file);
Hungry for
Change – A spokesman’s paper on food policy from farm to fork
including educational, planning and sustainability issues
Click here to
read a summary of the report (on web page);
Click here to read the report
in full (Word file).
