Secretary of State for Transport

The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

Biography

The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP was appointed Secretary of State for Transport on 24 July 2019. He was Minister of State at Department for International Development from 11 May 2015 until 28 November 2015. He was elected the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005.

Education

Grant studied at Cassio College, Watford before graduating from Manchester Polytechnic with a business and finance diploma.

Political career

Grant was appointed Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party in 2005, before being made Shadow Housing Minister in June 2007. Following the 2010 election, he served as Minister of State for Housing and Local Government in the Department for Communities and Local Government. Grant was appointed to the Privy Council in June 2010. In September 2012 he was appointed as co-chairman to the Conservative Party. At the same time he held the position of Minister without Portfolio at the Cabinet Office.

Career outside politics

In 1990, Grant founded PrintHouse Corporation, a design, print, website creation and marketing business in London.

Personal life

Grant is married with 3 children.

Secretary of State for Transport

The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport, with responsibility for:

  • oversight of all areas
  • corporate
More about this role

Department for Transport

Previous roles in government

  1. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Asia and the Pacific)

    • 2015 to 2015

  2. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

    • 2015 to 2015

  3. Minister without Portfolio

    • 2012 to 2015

  4. Minister of State for Housing

    • 2010 to 2012

Announcements

  1. Government takes the first steps in a bus revolution 
    • News story
  2. Thomas Cook update
    • Oral statement
  3. Ports across England given £10 million to prepare for Brexit
    • News story
  4. Thomas Cook
    • Written statement
  5. London International Shipping Week Gala Dinner
    • Speech
  6. Government and UK CAA launches largest repatriation in peacetime history after collapse of Thomas Cook
    • News story
  7. Disabled people to benefit from better journeys thanks to service station funding
    • News story
  8. 8 firms signed up to freight procurement framework as DfT launches competition for Brexit capacity
    • News story
  9. An Electric Revolution in the skies
    • Speech
  10. Grant Shapps: new ‘On Time’ statistics will stop masking whether trains are really on time
    • News story
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