Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling became Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons following the May 2015 general election.[1]
He had previously worked as the minister of state at the Department for Work and Pensions in the coalition government in May 2010.[2] He was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State For Justice in September 2012.[3]
Grayling has been the Conservative Party MP for Epsom and Ewell since 2001. In the 2015 election he retained his seat with a majority of 24,423. [4]
Dinner with lobbyists
Details of the attendees and seating plans of the Conservative's 2013 summer ball, an event where tickets cost up to £12,000 each and allows attendees to sit at the table with ministers, were leaked by the Guardian. It revealed that Grayling sat with Patsy Baker of Bell Pottinger Communications.[5]
Affiliations
- Westminster Diet and Health Forum - patron
- The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust - former parliamentary patron
Notes
- ↑ Election 2015: Prime Minister and ministerial appointments, 10 Downing Street, 8 May 2010, updated 10 May 2010.
- ↑ Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
- ↑ Juliette Jowit, Shiv Malik and Haroon Siddique, Cabinet reshuffle: who has moved so far?, guardian.co.uk, 4 September 2012.
- ↑ Election 2015: Conservative Chris Grayling retains Epsom & Ewell constituency getSurrey, 7 May 2015, accessed 14 May 2015
- ↑ Robert Booth, Nick Mathiason, Luke Harding and Melanie Newman Tory summer party drew super-rich supporters with total wealth of £11bn The Guardian, 3 July 2014, accessed 14 October 2014
