The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP

Cabinet Minister and Minister for Women and Equalities

Biography

Justine Greening was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities on 14 July 2016. She was elected Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields on 5 May 2005.

Education

Justine attended her local comprehensive school in Rotherham, South Yorkshire before going on to study economics at Southampton University. Justine has an MBA from the London Business School.

Career

Justine was a finance manager at Centrica plc before being elected as a Member of Parliament in May 2005. Following her election she was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for youth.

As well as being a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in 2007 she became a Shadow Treasury Minister and in January 2009 became the Shadow Minister for London.

Justine was Economic Secretary to the Treasury from May 2010 to October 2011 and Secretary of State for Transport from October 2011 to September 2012. She served as Secretary of State for International Development from September 2012 until July 2016.

Secretary of State for Education

The Secretary of State is responsible for the work of the Department for Education, including:

• early years
• adoption and child protection
• teachers’ pay
• the school curriculum
• school improvement
• the establishment of academies and free schools
• further education
• higher education
• apprenticeships and skillsfor Education

Minister for Women and Equalities

The Minister for Women and Equalities has overall responsibility for:

• policy on women
• policy on sexual orientation and transgender equality
• cross-government equality strategy and legislation

Before July 2014, this role was covered by the Minister for Women and the Minister for Equalities.

Previous roles in government

Secretary of State for International Development
2012 to 2016

Secretary of State for Transport
2011 to 2012

Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister)
2010 to 2011