Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG

Biography

Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG was Minister of State between 20 September 2022 and 5 July 2024.

Lucy joined the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer in October 2013 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual property from July 2014 until July 2016, becoming Minister of State in July 2016. Lucy also served as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury from December 2016 to June 2017.

She sat on the House of Lords EU committee from 2017 to 2021 and chaired the Built Environment Committee from 2021 to September 2022.

In December 2021, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions appointed her to lead the independent review into the State Pension age, which concluded in September 2022.

Education

Lucy was convent educated and studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Somerville College Oxford where she is an honorary fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries.

Career outside politics

Lucy worked at Tesco Plc from 1997 to 2013 and was an executive director on the main Board from 2006. In recent years she has served as Chair of Crown Agents and of the UK ASEAN Business Council. Lucy has also been a Non-Executive Director of Capita PLC, Secure Trust Bank and Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company.

She has served on the boards of ITV, PwC, Metro AG and the China Britain Business Council and was Chairman of Dobbies Garden Centres Plc. She was also President of EuroCommerce, the EU trade association, between 2012 and 2014.

Until 1997 she was a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office as Director of the Deregulation Unit and as a member of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. Lucy spent her earlier career in what is now Defra where she also served as private secretary to the secretary of state.

She was awarded her CMG for her time on the FCO Board and her DBE for services to industry and the voluntary sector.

Personal life

Lucy is married with 4 sons and is interested in the arts, racing, cricket, and gardening.