Ministerial role

Minister for Women and Equalities

Responsibilities

The Minister for Women and Equalities has responsibility for:

  • promoting equality of opportunity for everyone, and reducing negative disparities
  • strategic oversight of Government’s equality policy, for women, ethnicity and LGBT
  • sponsorship of the Social Mobility Commission and Equality and Human Rights Commission
  • overview of the overarching equalities legislative framework, including the Equality Act

Before July 2014, this role was covered by the Minister for Women and the Minister for Equalities.

Current role holder

The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP

The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP was appointed Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade on 7 February 2023. She remains Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade on, which she was appointed to on 6 September 2022, and Minister for Women and Equalities for the Equality Hub, which she was appointed to on 25 October 2022.

Previously she was Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 16 September 2021 and 6 July 2022.

She was Minister of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Equality Hub between 14 February 2020 and July 2022.

She was previously Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 13 February 2020 to 15 September 2021 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from 27 July 2019 to 13 February 2020.

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More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP

    2019 to 2022

  2. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2019 to 2019

  3. The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP

    2018 to 2019

  4. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2018 to 2018

  5. The Rt Hon Justine Greening

    2016 to 2018

  6. The Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan

    2014 to 2016