Pensions - Articles - Damian Green has been named work and pensions secretary


Damian Green has been named work and pensions secretary in Theresa May's cabinet following the resignation of Stephen Crabb.

 Green has been MP for Ashford since 1997 and was minister of state for police and criminal justice until 2014. He will now take over at the DWP

 His predecessor, Crabb, was the minister of state and pensions following the resignation of Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith in March but Crabb has resigned due to personal reasons.

 After the 2010 election, he became minister of state for immigration at the Home Office, and from 2012 to 2014 was minister of state for policing, criminal justice and victims, a role covering both the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.

 In October 2012 he was made a member of the Privy Council.

 Green's website states he is a board member of the Britain Stronger in Europe Campaign, and chairman of Conservative European Mainstream. A member of the European Scrutiny Committee, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary BBC Group, and chairman of the Conservative Backbench Education Committee.

 Green was formerly a financial journalist and worked in the prime minister's policy unit from 1992 to 1994. He was educated at Reading School and Balliol College, Oxford and is married with two daughters.

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