The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP
Biography
Damian Hinds served as Secretary of State for Education from 8 January 2018 to 24 July 2019. He was elected Conservative MP for East Hampshire in May 2010.
Education
Damian attended St Ambrose Grammar School, Altrincham before completing a degree in politics, philosophy and economics.
Political career
Shortly after entering Parliament, Damian was elected to the Education Select Committee and served until October 2012. Previously he chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility. He previously served as Assistant Government Whip from July 2014 until March 2015, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from May 2015 until July 2016 and as Minister of State for the Department of Work and Pensions from July 2016 to January 2018.
Career outside politics
Damian spent 18 years working in the pubs, brewing and hotel industries, in Britain and abroad.
Personal life
Damian and his wife Jacqui have 3 young children.
Previous roles in government
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Update on the future of DWP jobcentres
- Society-wide mission to tackle early literacy and communication
- Further measures announced to boost the quality of post-16 qualifications
- Education Secretary calls for children to spend summer outdoors
- Scheme to help adults retrain gets underway
- Data burdens on schools
- Children to have greater opportunity to access 60 minutes of physical activity every day
- National mental health programme between schools and NHS
- Eighty-thousand more children in good or outstanding sponsored academies
- New masterclass to prepare students for independent living