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Kate Parminter

Kate Parminter

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Kate Parminter, former chief executive of the Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE), is a freelance consultant with clients including Lloyd’s, the City of London Corporation, Mencap and Age UK. She was an advisory group member of Every Child a Reader, a government scheme promoting reading in schools. Kate Parminter became a Liberal Democrat life peer in 2010.

Educated in Sussex, she graduated in 1986 from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Subsequently she worked for Nestle, Simon Hughes MP and in a PR Consultancy. From 1990 to 1998 she headed the Public Affairs for the RSPCA, before leading CPRE for nearly six years.

She was a Liberal Democrat councillor on Horsham District Council in West Sussex for eight years (1987–95) and is now a member of the Liberal Democrats Federal Executive.