Nick Hurd

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The Honourable Nicholas Richard Hurd (1962— ) is a United Kingdom Conservative Party Member of Parliament. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood at the May 2005 general election with 47.7% of the vote.

Hurd is the son of the former Conservative Member of Parliament and Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd. He is the fourth generation of his family to enter the House of Commons as a Conservative MP as he follows his father, grandfather and great-grandfather into Parliament. After Eton College and graduating from Oxford University, he ran his own business and represented a British bank in Brazil. In 2002 he set up the Small Business Network to advise the Conservative Party on business policy. More recently, he has worked as Chief of Staff to Tim Yeo MP.

The EAC Remit is "to consider to what extent the polices 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, focusing particularly on climate change.

He is also chairing the Climate Change sub-group of the Conservative Party's Quality of Life policy review commission, set up during 2006.

Hurd won the Private Member's Bill ballot in November 2006, it is expected that he will sponsor a Stable Communities Bill backed by Charter 88 and the New Politics Network.