David Gauke
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David Gauke is the financial secretary to the HM Treasury.[1]
He was previously the exchequer secretary at the Treasury from 2010 to 2014.[2][1]
Background
Gauke was educated at Northgate High School in Ipswich, he went on to read law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. After a year of working as a parliamentary researcher, he attended Chester College of Law where he became a trainee solicitor. [3]
Gauke was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from February 2006 until he was appointed as a Shadow Minister for the Treasury in June 2007. [3]
Affiliations
- Conservative Friends of Israel - Gauke revealed in 2006 during a debate about Britain's Iran Policy that he had recently been flown to Israel by on trip funded by CFI.[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
- ↑ Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Financial secretary to the treasury David Gauke MP GOV.UK, accessed 10 October 2014
- ↑ BPCIF, "David Gauke MP: Iran has an appalling record of exporting terror", British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, 1 February 2006, accessed on 22 December 2010
