Lucy Neville-Rolfe

The Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Colour portrait photograph of Neville-Rolfe
Official portrait, 2022
Minister of State at the Cabinet Office
In office
20 September 2022 – 5 July 2024
Prime Minister
Preceded byThe Lord True
Chair of Assured Food Standards
In office
21 November 2017 – 26 October 2020
Prime Minister
Preceded byAndrew Blenkiron
Succeeded byChristine Tacon
Commercial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
21 December 2016 – 13 June 2017
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byThe Lord O'Neill of Gatley
Succeeded byThe Lord Agnew of Oulton[a]
Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property
In office
18 July 2016 – 21 December 2016
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byAndrea Leadsom
Succeeded byNick Hurd
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Intellectual Property
In office
15 July 2014 – 13 July 2016
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byThe Viscount Younger of Leckie
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Member of the House of Lords
Assumed life peerage
29 October 2013
Personal details
Born (1953-01-02) 2 January 1953 (age 71)
Wardour, Wiltshire, England, UK
Political partyConservative
SpouseSir Richard Packer
Children4 sons
Alma materSomerville 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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  1. ^ "Ministerial Appointments: September 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG". GOV.UK. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Baroness Neville-Rolfe – UK Parliament". Parliament.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. ^ White2017-11-21T10:10:00+00:00, Kevin. "Lucy Neville-Rolfe appointed Assured Food Standards chairman". The Grocer.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)