Chris Grayling

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Chris Grayling

Chris Grayling was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State For Justice in September 2012.[1]

He had previously been appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Work and Pensions in the incoming coalition government in May 2010.[2]

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.[3]

Affiliations

Notes

  1. Juliette Jowit, Shiv Malik and Haroon Siddique, Cabinet reshuffle: who has moved so far?, guardian.co.uk, 4 September 2012.
  2. Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
  3. 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