West Midlands Region
Phil Bennion has a strong Regional profile in the West Midlands, and believes that the economic and social future of the region will be significantly shaped by our relationship with the EU, for good or ill.
Phil has represented the West Midlands farming industry on a national NFU commodity committee and represented UK farmers in negotiations on the introduction of the EU's Biofuels Directive.
As Chair of the Staffordshire Rural Hub, Phil is one of the Regional Champions of Farming and Food, an appointment of Government Office of the West Midlands. The five County Hubs are now federating to enable them to deliver EU and DEFRA funded rural development programmes on behalf of Advantage West Midlands. He was also a member of AWM's food and drink Cluster Group and Bioenergy West Midlands.
Phil takes a keen interest in transport issues and has been a regular at regional consultation meetings with the rail industry for a number of years and is a member of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Users Forum.
Phil Bennion was a great Ambassador for the Liberal Democrats to the Business and Farming Communities in the 2004 European Election Campaign. Seen here at the Staffordshire County Show a week before the election
As a Liberal Democrat he has fought three European Elections in the Region and represented the Lib Dem list in meetings with business and farming groups. As a former chair of the party's West Midlands Policy Committee, Phil co-ordinated the Liberal Democrat responses to the Regional Assembly's Regional Spatial Strategy and to the Regional Economic Strategy.
Until 2012 Phil was also the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee representative to the West Midlands.
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