[ARCHIVED] Ministerial Disability Champions
Departmental Ministerial Disability Champions provide a personal lead and commitment to championing accessibility and opportunity for disabled people within their departments.
This was an initiative from 2020 to 2024 under the Conservative government.
Their role is to:
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ensure disability inclusion is a priority in their department’s work
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help deliver the government’s commitment to support disabled people in the UK through creating more opportunities, protecting their rights and ensuring they fully benefit from, and can contribute to, every aspect of our society
The Ministerial Disability Champions meet regularly throughout the year. Mims Davies MP is the chair.
The Ministerial Disability Champions are:
- Mims Davies MP (chair), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work) in the Department for Work and Pensions
- The Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) for the Equality Hub
- Steve Baker MP, Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office
- Saqib Bhatti MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Felicity Buchan MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Housing and Homelessness) for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Maria Caulfield MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women) for the Equality Hub
- Laura Farris MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Victims and Safeguarding) in the Home Office and Ministry of Justice
- Mike Freer MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice
- Lord Dominic Johnson of Lainston CBE, Minister of State (Minister for Investment) and Minister of State (Minister for Regulatory Reform) in the Department for Business and Trade
- David Johnston OBE MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing) in the Department for Education
- Fay Jones MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
- John Lamont MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
- The Rt Hon Johnny Mercer MP, Minister of State (Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) at the Cabinet Office
- Robbie Moore MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Rural Growth) in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- The Rt Hon Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence
- Guy Opperman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Roads and Local Transport) in the Department for Transport
- The Rt Hon Victoria Prentis KC MP, Attorney General
- David Rutley MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Amanda Solloway MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Energy Consumers and Affordability) at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
- Baroness Vere of Norbiton, Parliamentary Secretary in HM Treasury