Cabinet reshuffle
Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Justine Greening as Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities in her Cabinet reshuffle.
Justine Greening is Conservative MP for Putney, and prior to her new appointment was Secretary of State for International Development. She attended Oakwood Comprehensive School (making her one of the few Education Secretaries to have attended a non-selective state school) and went on to study economics at Southampton University before entering the House of Commons in 2005.
Ms Greening, who will replace Nicky Morgan in the role, said she was “looking forward to getting on with the job” when she arrived at the Department for Education. Her department is likely to expand to include responsibility for schools, colleges and universities.
The full list of new ministerial and government appointments can be found here.
Department for Education
- Secretary of State for Education, and Minister for Women and Equalities – Rt Hon Justine Greening MP**
- Minister of State – Jo Johnson MP (jointly with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
- Minister of State – Nick Gibb MP
- Minister of State – Edward Timpson MP
- Minister of State – Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Lord Nash*
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Caroline Dinenage MP
*unpaid ** full member of Cabinet
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