Secretary of State for Education
Ministerial role
The Secretary of State is responsible for the work of the Department for Education, including:
early years
children’s social care
teacher quality, recruitment and retention
the school curriculum
school improvement
academies and free schools
further education
apprenticeships and skills
higher education
Kit Malthouse was appointed Secretary of State for Education on 6 September 2022.
He was previously Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 7 July 2022 and 6 September 2022.
Prior to this Kit served as:
Minister of State at the Home Office and Ministry of Justice – February 2020 to July 2022
Minister of State (Minister of State for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service) at the Home Office – July 2019 to February 2020
Minister of State for Housing – July 2018 to July 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance at the Department of Work and Pensions – January 2018 to July 2018
Kit was elected as Conservative MP for North West Hampshire on 7 May 2015.
Education
Kit attended Sudley County Primary school and then Liverpool College before studying Politics and Economics at Newcastle University.
Political career
Kit was a councillor on Westminster Council from 1998 to 2006.
He was a member of the London Assembly from 2008 to 2016. He served as Deputy Mayor for Policing 2008 to 2012 and Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise from 2012 to 2015.
Career outside politics
Kit is a chartered accountant, founding a midlands-based finance company, which he now chairs.
Personal life
Kit is married with 3 children.
2022 to 2022
2022 to 2022
2021 to 2022
2019 to 2021
2018 to 2019
2016 to 2018
2014 to 2016
2010 to 2014
Susan Lapworth appointed as Office for Students Chief Executive
Hundreds of thousands of students receive GCSE and vocational results
Record numbers of 18-year-olds take up their place at university
Hundreds of thousands of students set to receive exam results
Every school will have a life-saving defibrillator by 22/23
Government delivers landmark rises to teachers’ salaries
New bursaries to help learners to upskill and retrain
Schools across the country to receive state of the art refurbishments
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