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*[[Susan Kramer]] – Minister of State for Transport | *[[Susan Kramer]] – Minister of State for Transport | ||
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===Management=== | ===Management=== | ||
Latest revision as of 03:07, 23 August 2017
Contents
Background
The Department for Transport work with their agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. They plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move. DFT is a ministerial department, supported by 21 agencies and public bodies. [1]
People
Ministers
- Patrick McLoughlin – Secretary of State for Transport
- Andrew Jones – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- Robert Goodwill – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Former
- John Hayes – Minister of State for Transport
- Susan Kramer – Minister of State for Transport
- Claire Perry – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - moved to BEIS as climate change and industry minister in 2017
Management
- Philip Rutnam - Permanent Secretary
- Jonathan Moor(CBE) (FCA) - Director General Resources and Strategy Group
- David Prout - Director General High Speed 2 Group
- Lucy Chadwick - Director General International, Security and Environment Group
- Clare Moriarty - Director General Rail Executive
- Steve Gooding - Director General Roads Traffic and Local Group
- Nick Olley - General Counsel
Special Advisers
July 2016
- Emma Boon from July 2016. Former campaign director of the Taxpayers Alliance and lobbyist for Brunswick Group
Prior to reshuffle:
- Tim Smith - appointed special adviser to Patrick McLoughlin in May 2015. Former lobbyist at Portland Communications and political press adviser to the Conservative Party.
- Julian Glover - was appointed special adviser for the DfT in September 2012. Previous to this, he was chief speech writer to the Prime Minister. He was also a columnist at The Guardian from 2001 to 2011. [2]
- Simon Burton - was appointed special adviser in May 2014. Previous roles include working at the policy and briefing team at Post Office, political adviser at the Conservative Party, constituency organiser at Huntingdon Conservative Association and constituency assistant to the office of Jonathan Djanogly [3]
Former
- Ben Mascall - special adviser to Patrick McLoughlin from September 2012 to May 2015. Previous roles include political press adviser for health and education for the Conservative Party, account director at lobbyists Bell Pottinger Group, account director at MS&L Worldwide as well as senior consultant at Financial Dynamics.[4] Now a spad to defence secretary Michael Fallon and deputy director of communications for the Conservative Party.
Contact
- Address: Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR
- Phone: 0300 330 3000
- Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Department for Transport, GOV.UK, accessed 30 September 2014
- ↑ Julian Glover LinkedIn profile, accessed 6 October 2014
- ↑ Simon Burton LinkedIn profile, accessed 6 October 2014
- ↑ Ben Mascall LinkedIn profile, accessed 6 October 2014
