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The Meat and Livestock Commission entered a vital new stage of its development into a more devolved organisation with the Government appointment of a new team of MLC Commissioners, effective from 1 October 2002.
Under the leadership of MLC Chairman Peter Barr, the 11-strong Commission team will oversee the final changes needed to deliver devolved spending power and responsibility to England, Scotland, and Wales from 1 April 2003.
Mr Peter Barr CBE - Chairman
Appointed Chairman in April 2001 he is also a member of the MLC Remuneration Committee. Peter’s background is in food retailing and food production and prior to joining the MLC he was Chairman of Hazelwood Foods
Mr Paul Kirk (re-appointed)- Deputy Chairman
Non-executive Chairman of Dalgety Group Ltd. Chairman of the MLC Audit Committee and Chairman of the MLC Remuneration Committee.
Helen Browning OBE (re-appointed), independent farming and processing sectors and the organic sector representative
Organic farmer, a member of the Soil Association Council, a member of the Sustainable Development Commission, and a Member of the AEBC (Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission).
John Cross, Chairman of new English beef and sheep body (provisionally called EBLEX)
A mixed livestock and arable farmer. Chairman of the MLC Beef & Lamb Promotion Council and member of the former Cattle and Sheep Strategy Councils (being replaced by the new English beef and sheep body).
Richard Cracknell, GB abattoir/processor representative
Managing Director of Anglo Beef Processors Limited, Director of Assured Food Standards and a Director of the Meat Training Council.
Dr Kevin Hawkins, multiple retailer/food service sector representative
Director of Communications for Safeway Stores plc. Member of the Management Board of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Chairman of the BRC Food Advisory Group and Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Retail Council. He is a member of the Cabinet Office’s Better Regulation Task Force, and of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department’s Agricultural Strategy Implementation Group.
Stewart Houston, Chairman of the British Pig Executive (BPEX)
Pig producer and Managing Director of Microware Pig Systems Ltd. Chairman of the National Pig Association’s Producer Group and a Board member of the National Pig Association, member of the NFU Policy Committee, member of the NFU Council, representative to the Committee of Agricultural Organisations in the European Union and General Committee for Agricultural Co-operation in the European Union, and member of the Pig Disease Eradication Fund (PDEF) Board.
Neil Kilpatrick, Chairman of Quality Meat Scotland and Scottish Commissioner
Career has been spent with the PA Consulting Group, latterly as International Board Director with special responsibility for strategy, business planning, acquisitions and mergers for the group world-wide. Chairman of Quality Meat Scotland and Chairman of Inverarity Vaults Ltd.
Professor Richard Moody (re-appointed), consumer commissioner
Head of Department of Food and Consumer Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, Chairman of the MLC Consumers’ Committee, a member of the Food Standards Agency’s Advisory Committee on Research, a member of the FSA Working Party on Food Additives and Consumer representative on FSA delegation to Codex food additive conferences.
Neil Stoddart, GB abattoir/processor representative
Managing Director of AK Stoddart (AKS). President of the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers, and a Director of Quality Meat Scotland. He is also a member of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department’s Agricultural Strategy Implementation Group.
Rees Roberts - Wales
Rees Roberts is a farmer from Montgomeryshire. He runs a successful sheep and cattle business and is very active in the red meat industry. He has held the post of MLC Commissioner for Wales for the last four years and is chair of the MLC Welsh Council.
He also chairs the Farming Connect Beef and Sheep Development Steering Group and the Welsh Sheep trategy. Mr Roberts is currently a member of the Agri-Food Partnership Lamb and Beef Strategy Group.
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