Ministerial role

Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip)

Current role holder: Lilian Greenwood MP

Responsibilities

Current role holder

Lilian Greenwood MP

Lilian Greenwood was appointed Minister for the Future of Roads at the Department for Transport on 9 July 2024.

She was re-elected as the MP for Nottingham South in July 2024, and has represented the constituency since May 2010.

Lilian was Shadow Secretary of State for Transport between 2015 and 2016, also operating as Shadow Rail Minister from 2011 to 2015. Lilian was appointed Opposition Deputy Chief Whip by Sir Keir Starmer in May 2021, occupying the role until 2023 when she was made Shadow Minister for Arts, Heritage, and Civil Society.

Lilian also chaired the Transport Select Committee from July 2017 to January 2020.

Education

Lilian attended Canon Slade School in Bolton, before reading Economics and Social and Political Sciences St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.

Career before politics

Lilian moved to Nottingham in 1992 to work for the National Union of Public Employees, now part of the public sector trade body UNISON.

Personal life

Away from work, Lilian is most likely to be walking in the hills, or at the theatre.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. Samantha Dixon MP

    2024 to 2025

  2. Stuart Anderson MP

    2023 to 2024

  3. Jo Churchill

    2022 to 2023

  4. The Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson KC

    2022 to 2022

  5. James Morris

    2021 to 2022

  6. The Rt Hon Marcus Jones

    2020 to 2021

  7. The Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP

    2019 to 2020

  8. The Rt Hon Craig Whittaker

    2019 to 2019

  9. The Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson CBE

    2018 to 2019

  10. The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer

    2018 to 2018

  11. The Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris

    2017 to 2018