Sajid Javid

Sajid Javid

Sajid Javid is the UK Conservative MP for Bromsgrove, first elected in the 2010 UK general election. He was appointed culture secretary in April 2014 and business secretary in May 2015.

Political career

Javid was appointed economic secretary to HM Treasury in September 2012. He was promoted to financial secretary to the Treasury in the October 2013 government reshuffle, replacing Greg Clark who was appointed as minister of state for cities. He was promoted to the Cabinet as culture secretary in April 2014, following the resignation of Maria Miller.

Banking career

Javid previously worked in business and finance. According to his government biography:

Aged 25, he became a vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank. He later moved to Deutsche Bank in London to help build its business in emerging market countries. Sajid left Deutsche Bank as a senior managing director in summer 2009 'to give something back through politics'.

At Deutsche his boss was Conservative Party donor Rajeev Misra.

Dinner with lobbyists

The Black and White Ball 2015

On the 9 February 2015, Javid attended the Conservative Party's 'Black and White Ball' election fundraiser at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. The event was attended by almost the entire Cabinet, Boris Johnson and George Osborne did not attend due to the G20 event, and by party donors including; hedge fund boss Stanley Fink (Lord Fink), who wants Britain to rival offshore tax havens with an equally generous tax regime; founder of Lycamobile, who paid no corporation tax between 2007 and 2014 despite generating millions in revenue, Subaskaran Allirajah; jewellery tycoon Ranbir Singh Suri and lap dancing club owner Peter Stringfellow.

One Tory donor told the Guardian he had been told if he bought a 'premium table at the event for £15,000 he would expect the company of a cabinet minister' and if 'he paid £5,000 for a standard table, he would expect a junior minister'.

To raise additional money at the event, the Party sold one off prizes. These included, a meal at the Carlton Club with Javid, shoe shopping with Theresa May, dinner at home with Michael Gove and a session of jogging with Nicky Morgan.

Special advisers

• Nick King - was appointed as a policy adviser for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in November 2012.

• Salma Shah - appointed special adviser in July 2014. Shah was previously a broadcast journalist at the BBC for two years. Shah also worked at Freelance PR where she managed communications for Business in the Community's Olympic legacy project. Previous roles include working in the Conservative Party press office.

BBC Trust

In 2014, after the resignation of Lord Patten as the chair of the BBC Trust, Javid nominated Rona Fairhead for the role, which was ultimately decided by Her Majesty the Queen.

Javid said:

'Her experience of working with huge multinational corporations will undoubtedly be a real asset at the BBC Trust.'

'I have no doubt she will provide the strong leadership the position demands and will prove to be a worthy champion of licence fee payers.

'I am sure that under Rona's leadership the BBC will continue to play a central role in informing, educating and entertaining the nation.'

Fairhead was hired in the role but in 2015 her suitability was questioned due to her work with HSBC and the tax avoidance scandal.

Contact

Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA


Tel: 020 7219 7027


Fax: 020 7219 0930

Email: 
sajid.javid.mp@parliament.uk

Twitter: @sajidjavid

Website: sajidjavid.com

Constituency: Rear Office, 18 High Street, Bromsgrove, B61 8HQ
Tel: 01527 872135

HM Treasury, 1 Horseguards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ
Tel: 020 7270 5000