The Baroness Neville-Rolfe | |
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Minister of State at the Cabinet Office | |
In office 20 September 2022 – 5 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | The Lord True |
Chair of Assured Food Standards | |
In office 21 November 2017 – 26 October 2020 | |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | Andrew Blenkiron |
Succeeded by | Christine Tacon |
Commercial Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 21 December 2016 – 13 June 2017 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | The Lord O'Neill of Gatley |
Succeeded by | The Lord Agnew of Oulton[a] |
Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property | |
In office 18 July 2016 – 21 December 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Andrea Leadsom |
Succeeded by | Nick Hurd |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Intellectual Property | |
In office 15 July 2014 – 13 July 2016 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Viscount Younger of Leckie |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Member of the House of Lords | |
Assumed life peerage 29 October 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Wardour, Wiltshire, England, UK | 2 January 1953
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Sir Richard Packer |
Children | 4 sons |
Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG (born 2 January 1953) is a British businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from September 2022 to July 2024.[1][2] A member of the Conservative Party, she served in ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak. In December 2021, she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.
Born in Wiltshire, Neville-Rolfe worked as a senior civil servant at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1973 to 1992, and at the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street from 1992 to 1994. She then worked at Tesco (1997–2013), serving on the board of directors from 2006.
Neville-Rolfe was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in 2013.[3] She served in the first government of Theresa May as Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from July to December 2016 and as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017. She became chair of Assured Food Standards in November 2017, stepping down in 2020.[4]
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