Ministerial role

Minister for Women and Equalities

Organisations: Department for Education, Office for Equality and Opportunity, Race Equality Unit, and Women and Equalities Unit
Current role holder: The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP

Responsibilities

The Minister for Women and Equalities has responsibility for:

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

Current role holder

The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP

Bridget Phillipson was appointed Secretary of State for Education on 5 July 2024 and Minister for Women and Equalities on 8 July 2024.

She was elected as the Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South in May 2010.

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP

    2022 to 2024

  2. The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss

    2019 to 2022

  3. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2019 to 2019

  4. The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt

    2018 to 2019

  5. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2018 to 2018

  6. The Rt Hon Justine Greening

    2016 to 2018

  7. The Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan

    2014 to 2016