Robert Jenrick MP has been announced as the new Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (a role which has ministerial responsibility for charity taxation). His predecessor, Andrew Jones MP, has been appointed as a new Conservative Party Vice-Chair. Robert Jenrick is now the 9th Minister responsible for charity taxation since May 2010.

Robert has been the Conservative MP for Newark since the 5 June 2014 by-election. He has served on the Health Select Committee and been a PPS to a number of Ministers including most recently Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary.  He is the Treasurer of the British Museum APPG.

Robert was born in Wolverhampton in 1982 and grew up in Shropshire and Herefordshire. He went to school at Wolverhampton Grammar School. He read History at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, gaining a First Class degree. With a Thouron scholarship he then spent a year in the USA, studying Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Returning to the UK he studied and then practised law, advising businesses and governments on corporate law in London and Moscow. He went on to pursue a business career, holding a range of senior commercial management roles at Christie’s.

Matt Hancock MP has been confirmed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, replacing Karen Bradley MP. The Office for Civil Society sits within DCMS. Tracey Crouch MP remains as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society.

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) will be renamed as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The Department has responsibility for business rates policy in England.