16 Facts About Rebecca Pow

Rebecca Pow served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature from November 2023 to 4 July 2024.

Rebecca Pow previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2022.

Rebecca Pow was born on 10 October 1960 in Inglesbatch, the daughter of Michael Pow, a farmer.

Rebecca Pow was brought up on the family farm, working there as a teenager and was an active member of both Bath and Taunton Young Farmers Clubs.

Rebecca Pow studied Rural Environment Studies at Wye College, University of London, graduating in 1982.

Rebecca Pow had a 20-year career in radio and television, specialising in the environment, farming and gardening, including working for HTV in Bristol and BBC Radio 4.

Rebecca Pow was previously a parish councillor for Stoke St Mary and trustee of the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

Rebecca Pow stepped down as vice-president of Somerset Wildlife Trust in June 2018, following an online petition criticising her support for badger culling.

Rebecca Pow declared that she would vote Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Rebecca Pow received local and national criticism for stating during the 2017 Budget debate that people in Taunton have "thousands of extra pounds in their pockets".

Rebecca Pow was appointed in September 2018 as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Ministerial team, before serving as PPS to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Esther McVey until her Ministerial appointment in May 2019.

In May 2019, it was alleged that Rebecca Pow was one of a number of MPs who had legally claimed parliamentary expenses for an 'accommodation uplift' contrary to the measure's original purpose.

On 10 September 2019, during the first Johnson ministry, Rebecca Pow was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Rebecca Pow resigned from this position on 7 July 2022, as part of the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

In March 2024, Rebecca Pow was selected as the Conservative candidate for Taunton and Wellington at the 2024 general election.

Rebecca Pow met her late husband, Charles Clark, at a Young Farmers Club event.