The Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MP
Biography
Nadine Dorries was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 15 September 2021.
Nadine Dorries was previously appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care in May 2020, having been promoted from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the department, appointed on 27 July 2019.
She was elected as the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire in May 2005.
Education
She trained as a nurse at Warrington General Hospital.
Political career
Nadine was previously an adviser to the former Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Oliver Letwin MP.
Career outside politics
Nadine began her career as a nurse, then went on to set up her own business and later became a director at BUPA. She has also published a number of books.
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the department and management of the UK transition for the department.
Responsibilities include:
- Overall Departmental Strategy
- COVID-19
- Appointments and honours
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
Previous roles in government
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Martin Thomas is confirmed as the new Charity Commission Chair
- Readout of meeting between DIT and DCMS Secretaries of State and US Commerce Secretary
- UK – US joint statement on deepening the data partnership
- DCMS Secretary of State speech at the Summit For Democracy
- US and UK to partner on prize challenges to advance Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
- New measures to boost UK telecoms security
- Coronavirus Community Support Fund Learning Hub Reports
- Evaluation of the 50+ Volunteering Programme
- Community Organisers 2019 and 2020 Reports
- Youth Evidence Review- Part 1 & 2