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Earl Howe is a conservative member of the House of Lords.  He is an elected hereditary peer under the provisions of the House of Lords Act 1999.
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He was born in 1951. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Mods and Greats. After leaving University in 1973, he joined Barclays Bank and served in a number of managerial and senior managerial posts both overseas and in London. In 1987 he was appointed London director of [[Adam & Co. plc]], the Scottish-based private bank, where he remained until 1990.
 
 
 
In 1991, Lord Howe became a government whip in the House of Lords with responsibilities, successively, for transport, employment, defence and environment. Following the General Election of 1992 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Lords) at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; and in 1995 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, a post he relinquished at the 1997 General Election.
 
 
 
He has been opposition spokesman for Health and Social Services in the House of Lords since 1997.
 
 
 
Lord Howe is a patron of [[The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust]]TOAST.
 
 
 
In 2005 he raised the issue of the EU regulation No 1924/2006 on nutrition and Health claims made on food, in the House of Lords.
 
<ref> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldhansrd/vo051010/text/51010w07.htm accessed 1 Dedcember </ref>
 
 
 
This issues was heavily lobbyied against by the  [[Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd]] on behalf of several food companies.
 
 
 
The Whitehouse consultancy are the PR company for TOAST.
 

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