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  • Lord Strathclyde resigned as Leader of the House of Lords in January 2013 to pursue a career in business. Education He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and the Universities of East Anglia and Aix-en-Provence. Political career Lord Strathclyde served...

  • The King has approved the nomination of The Venerable Dr Edward Dowler, Archdeacon of Hastings and Priest-in-Charge of St John the Evangelist, Crowborough, both in the Diocese of Chichester, to be appointed as Dean of Chichester.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Analyses how the proportion of the workforce with a university degree affects productivity and growth. BIS research paper number 110.

  • Damian Green was appointed First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office on 11 June 2017. He was elected Conservative MP for Ashford in 1997. Education Damian was educated at Reading School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was...

  • Lord Wallace was appointed as a Lord in Waiting in 2010. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 2012. He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. Spokesperson in the Lords for the Cabinet Office and Whip...

  • Educated at Bromsgrove School, Ben Key joined the Royal Navy in 1984 as a University Cadet, subsequently graduating in Physics from Royal Holloway, University of London. He qualified as both helicopter aircrew and as a Principal Warfare Officer and as...

  • Dominic Grieve was appointed Attorney General in May 2010. He was elected Conservative MP for Beaconsfield on 1 May 1997. Education Dominic was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied modern history. Political career Dominic held...

  • David Willetts was appointed Minister for Universities and Science in May 2010. He was elected Conservative MP for Havant in Hampshire on 9 April 1992. Education David was educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham and Christ Church, Oxford, where he...

  • Lord Younger was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions on 1 January 2023. He was elected as a conservative hereditary peer in 2010 and has covered over 12 departments in the Lords. Previously,...

  • Jonathan Djanogly served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice from May 2010 to September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for Huntingdon on 7June 2001. Jonathan was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Oxford Polytechnic. He has...

  • Educated at St George’s School, Harpenden and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, Rob joined the British Diplomatic Service in 2000 after working for the UK’s Millennium Commission. He served initially at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, working on...

  • Suella Braverman was Secretary of State for the Home Department between 25 October 2022 and 13 November 2023. She previously held the same role between 6 September 2022 and 19 October 2022. She was Attorney General between 13 February 2020...

  • Lord Sassoon was appointed as the first Commercial Secretary to the Treasury in May 2010 and appointed to the House of Lords in the same year. He is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Education He was educated...

  • Seema Kennedy was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Office from 26 July 2019 to 16 December 2019. She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care from April 2019 to July 2019, with...

  • Baroness Kramer was appointed Minister of State for Transport in October 2013. She is a Liberal Democrat Peer. Education Baroness Kramer was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Political career Highlights include: Liberal Democrat Candidate...

  • General Nick Houghton was born in 1954 in Otley, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Bradford, RMA Sandhurst and St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he did an in-service degree in modern history. Commissioned into the Green...