We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
On 25 October 2016 the Secretary of State for Transport appointed Sir Jeremy Sullivan to provide independent oversight of the consultation process on the draft Airports National Policy Statement . If you have any comments on the consultation process, please...
Chris Skidmore was Minister of State jointly at the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 10 September 2019 to 13 February 2020. He was previously Minister of State at the Department of Health...
This research is part of the Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme
Nusrat Ghani was appointed a Minister of State (Minister for Europe) in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 26 March 2024. She was previously a Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade as well as Minister...
Christian Rogg joined DFID as a Private Sector Advisor in 1999 and subsequently led the Growth Team in DFID’s Policy Division in London before taking up leadership positions in DFID’s offices in Nigeria, Vietnam and Ghana. He started his career...
The Rt Hon William Hague was appointed First Secretary of State and Leader of the House of Commons on 15 July 2014. He was elected to Parliament in 1989 as the Conservative MP for Richmond (Yorks). Education William was educated...
Alex Aiken is an Executive Director for Government Communication. He was appointed in December 2012 and was responsible for creating the Government Communication Service (GCS) and developing cross-government campaigns. He served as GCS Head of Profession, responsible for government communication...
Steven Mark Fisher was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova and took up his appointment at the beginning of September 2019. From 2009 to 2015, Mr Fisher served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and...
Alex Bamford is the Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Singapore. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director for International Affairs in the Cabinet Office. His previous roles have included serving as Principal Private Secretary to the...
David Jones was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union on 17 July 2016. He was elected Conservative MP for Clwyd West in May 2005. Education David was educated at Ruabon Grammar School and at...
The Rt Hon Julian Smith was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020. Julian was previously Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) from 2 November 2017 to 24 July 2019. He was...
Patrick has pursued a successful career in business and in public service. He was educated at Brentwood School and after receiving a degree in Economics from Durham University Patrick joined an investment bank. What followed is a career creating, developing...
Stephen Duffy is a statistician and epidemiologist, educated at Edinburgh University and Imperial College, London. His research is mainly in cancer epidemiology, prevention and screening, including work on the pioneering Swedish two-county trial of mammography. Since then he has taken...
Baroness Wilcox was Parliamentary Under Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills from May 2010 until September 2012. She is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Education She was educated at St Dunstan’s Abbey, Devon, St Mary’s Convent, Wantage,...
Andrew Mitchell was appointed as a Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on 25 October 2022. On 12 April 2024 he was given the honorific title of Deputy Foreign Secretary. He was previously Secretary of...
Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder assumed the role of UK Military Representative to NATO and the European Union on 31 May 2013. Educated at Rugby School and Peterhouse, Cambridge (Pure Mathematics), he joined the Royal Navy in 1978, volunteered for...
David Evennett was Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) between 7 September 2022 and 27 October 2022. He was Assistant Government Whip between 8 July 2022 and 7 September 2022 and he was previously Government Whip from September 2012....
Lord Howell no longer works for government. Previous role Rt Hon Lord David Howell was personal adviser to the Foreign Secretary on Energy and Resource Security from September 2012 to April 2013. Education He was educated at Eton and King’s...
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).