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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Baroness Sugg CBE
Biography
Baroness Sugg CBE was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development on 23 April 2019. She was a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) from 15 June 2017 to 26 July 2019. She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport from October 2017 to April 2019. Baroness Sugg became a Conservative life peer on 30 August 2016.
Career outside politics
Baroness Sugg previously served as Director of Operations and Campaigns at Downing Street under David Cameron.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
- Asia
- United Nations and Commonwealth
- International financial institutions
- Europe and trade
- Global partnerships and Sustainable Development Goals
- Inclusive societies: civil society, Leave No One Behind, diaspora, social protection, disability, gender, ageing, faith, LGBT and VAWG
- safeguarding
- Value for money and transparency returns
- Minister for Abercrombie House, our joint head quarters in Scotland
Previous roles in government
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Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- 2017 to 2019
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Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip)
- 2017 to 2019
Announcements
- UK aid to help prevent unsafe abortions
- Delivering sustainable development goals
- ‘Her Potential, Our Future’, Baroness Sugg speech at Women Deliver
- New UK aid funding to tackle violence against women and girls in Syria
- Baroness Sugg speech at Fair Fashion in Africa event
- Aviation Minister welcomes new investment to improve passenger experience at Leeds Bradford Airport
- Continued EU access for UK airlines, hauliers and bus and coach operators agreed
- New extended drone no-fly zone in place from today
- Transport ministers call on industry to become leaders in gender equality
- Flights protected in no deal Brexit scenario