Rory Stewart has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border since 2015. He currently sits on the Environmental Audit Committee. He is a former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and is a Minister of State for the Department for International Development. He has been particularly engaged with the APSRG through its sister group, the Sustainable Resource Forum, joining several meetings of the Forum in his role as Minister for Waste in 2016.