Edward McMillan-Scott

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Edward McMillan-Scott MEP

Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 June 1999

Born	15 August 1949 (1949-08-15) (age 58)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative

Edward H. C. McMillan-Scott (born August 15, 1949, Cambridge) is a British politician, Member of the European Parliament for the Yorkshire and the Humber region for the Conservative Party. He was the MEP for York from 1984 to 1994, MEP for North Yorkshire from 1994 to 1999, and MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber from 1999.

He is founder of the European Democracy Initiative, with a budget of some €140 million which was originally aimed at the transformation of the ex-Soviet bloc and which he is now directing towards the reforming Arab world.

McMillan-Scott was leader of the Conservative MEPs between 1997 and 2001.

On 23 July 2004 he was elected fourth of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. He was re-elected a Vice-President in 2007.

McMillan-Scott's responsibilities include relations with national EU parliaments and the EuroMed parliamentary assembly.

He speaks French, Italian, some German and Spanish. He is married to Henrietta, a member of the Law Society's Children's Panel: they have two daughters.

McMillan-Scott involved himself in the Shannon Matthews disappearance, claiming that police should have carried out more checks on the child's family, following the arrest of a family member. He also stated that if police had an Amber Alert, Shannon would have been found sooner ^[1]. Police have refuted the claims, pointing out that the Child Rescue Alert is designed for use in potential child abductions where a vehicle or partial vehicle details are known. A police spokesperson stated; "Its use would have been wholly inappropriate in this case and the suggestion it could have somehow speeded up Shannon's recovery is totally inaccurate."