Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
DBE MP
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of State for Industry
In office
7 September 2022 – 27 October 2022
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Preceded byLee Rowley[lower-alpha 1]
Succeeded byNus Ghani
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention[lower-alpha 2]
In office
14 June 2017 – 27 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byNadine Dorries
Assistant Government Whip[1][2]
In office
13 May 2015 – 14 June 2017
Prime Minister
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byChloe Smith[3]
Member of Parliament
for Thurrock
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byAndrew MacKinlay
Majority11,482 (24.2%)
Personal details
Born
Jacqueline Doyle-Price

(1969-08-05) 5 August 1969
Sheffield, England
Political partyConservative
Residence(s)Purfleet, England
Alma materUniversity College, Durham (BA)
Signature
WebsiteOfficial website

Dame Jacqueline Doyle-Price[4] DBE (born 5 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and former civil servant. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thurrock in the 2010 general election.

In September 2022, she was appointed Minister of State for Industry[5] by Prime Minister Liz Truss,[6][7] however she returned to the back benches following the appointment of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister.[8]

Early life and education

Jacqueline Doyle-Price was born on 5 August 1969[9] on a council estate in Sheffield.[10][11] Growing up in an apolitical working class family,[12][13] her father Brian Doyle-Price was a bricklayer whilst her mother Kathleen Doyle-Price worked part-time as a sales assistant at Woolworths.[14][15] She was raised in the suburb of Hillsborough and in the suburb of Wisewood, where she continued to live on a council estate.[12][10][16]: 14, 58  She attended Notre Dame Roman Catholic High School, a comprehensive school.[13]

Doyle-Price's interest in politics began when she was 14 years-old. Her parents attempted to buy their council house through Margaret Thatcher's Right to Buy scheme and faced resistance from the left-wing Sheffield City Council, which was run by the Labour Party under the local leadership of David Blunkett.[17][12] Doyle-Price claimed that its left-wing councillors did "everything they could to bully my parents into not buying their council house", and one of her left-wing teachers encouraged her to build upon her new-found interest and participate in politics, suggesting that she "go out and participate in democracy".[16]: 86  Following the council's alleged "intimidation of her parents",[10] Doyle-Price joined the Conservatives to campaign for people to buy their council homes in 1986.[17][18]

Doyle-Price read economics and politics at Durham University.[13] Her constituent college was University College.[12] At Durham, she participated in political activism[16]: 142  and joined its student Conservative Association where she worked as an officer with Graham Brady, who would later become a Conservative MP in 1997.[16]: 122  Doyle-Price graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in 1991.[11][14]

Career before parliament

Shortly after graduating from university, Doyle-Price became a researcher on a salary of £1.31 per hour, before spending 18 months moving between temporary jobs and unemployment.[16]: 142  In 1992, she was employed by the South Yorkshire Police as an administrative officer,[14] which became her first permanent job.[16]: 142  She also worked for the Sheffield Enterprise Agency.[19][2] From 1993 to 2000, after working for the South Yorkshire Police,[13] she was employed at the City of London Corporation as an assistant parliamentary officer, and from 2000 to 2005 she was an assistant private secretary to the Lord Mayor of the City of London.[9][11][14] From 2005, she worked as an associate,[9] policy adviser and consumer advocate for the Financial Services Authority, leaving this job in 2010 to focus on her parliamentary campaign in Thurrock.[11][13][18]

Doyle-Price continued her activism[9] after graduation and held several posts in the Conservative Party before her election to parliament.[18] From 1994 to 1997, she was Treasurer of the National Association of Conservative Graduates,[14] and she sat on its national executive.[18] In the 1997 general election, the national party employed her as a press secretary,[18] and from 1997 to 1998 she served as the chairwoman of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association.[14] She was constituency officer of the Greenwich and Woolwich Conservatives from 2006 to 2007[14] and stood unsuccessfully for election to Greenwich Council.[20]

Parliamentary career

Doyle-Price first stood for election to parliament in the 2005 general election. She was the Conservative candidate for the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency, which included her birthplace, and came third with 15.02% of the vote.[18]

Doyle-Price was elected for the Conservative Party as the Member of Parliament for Thurrock at the 2010 general election, by a majority of 92 (0.2%) after two recounts.[21][22] She retained her seat in May 2015, with a majority of 536 after a recount[23][24] and in June 2017 with a majority of 345 - again after a recount.[25] However, in December 2019 Doyle-Price increased her majority massively, to over 11,000 votes, the largest Conservative majority in the seat's history.

Doyle-Price made her maiden speech on 28 June 2010, speaking about the need for welfare reform. She was prepared to publicly challenge ministers on behalf of her constituents, particularly on transport issues connected with the Dartford Crossing and on the Government postponement of work to improve Junction 30 of the M25.[26] In June 2010, she was appointed to the House of Commons committee that is responsible for scrutinising Government spending and whether it is delivering value for money. In May 2012 she was elected Chairman of the All-Party Gurkha Welfare Group.[27]

Doyle-Price was a co-sponsor of the private member's EU membership referendum bill that was given a second reading on 5 July 2013.[28] On 14 January 2014, she led a debate in Westminster Hall on options for the new Lower Thames Crossing.[29]

Doyle-Price was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 EU membership referendum.[30]

In the House of Commons she has sat on the Public Accounts Committee and Committee of Selection[31] and Women and Equalities Committee.[32]

Government appointment

Following the 2015 general election, Doyle-Price was appointed as an assistant whip.[33] On 2 December 2015 she was one of the tellers for the "Ayes" (those MPs supporting UK bombing in Syria) and on 1 February 2017 she was the government teller who announced the result of the vote to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty.[34][35]

Following the 2017 election she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities in the Department for Health.[36] In July 2017, she spoke in parliament in her new role, answering a question from a DUP "shadow".[37] In October 2018, she given additional ministerial responsibility for suicide prevention and co-chaired the Women's Mental Health Taskforce.[38][39] She left the government following the election of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party,[40] but returned to government as Minister of State for Industry when Liz Truss was elected as Prime Minister in September 2022. She left the government again following Rishi Sunak's appointment as Prime Minister.

Partner employment

Doyle-Price employs her partner Mark Coxshall as her part-time Office Manager on a salary up to £30,000.[41] The practice of MPs employing family members has been criticised by some sections of the media on the lines that it promotes nepotism.[42][43] Although MPs who were first elected in 2017 have been banned from employing family members, the restriction is not retrospective – meaning that Doyle-Price's employment of her partner is lawful.[44]

LGBT+ issues

In May 2013 Doyle-Price voted against same-sex marriage on its third reading in the House of Commons, having abstained at the second reading. Doyle-Price stated after the vote that whilst she supported equality for same-sex couples, she regarded marriage as a sacrament, and would have voted in favour of a bill which "sought to equalise civil partnership with civil marriage". She also stated that she would reconsider her position if the bill was amended.[45][46]

In July 2020, Doyle-Price was critical of the availability of what she described as "dangerous" gender-affirming healthcare for trans children.[47] Earlier in the year on International Women's Day, Doyle-Price suggested in parliament that new legislation was needed to strengthen the provisions for single-sex spaces under the Equality Act 2010.[48]

In December 2020, following the revelation that Eddie Izzard had asked to be referred to with she/her pronouns, Doyle-Price stated in regard to Izzard that: "Being a straight man who likes to cross dress is not being a lesbian in a man's body. No man with respect for women would appropriate female same-sex attraction for themselves."[49]

In 2019, Doyle-Price abstained on a bill to legalise gay marriage in Northern Ireland.[50]

Personal life

Doyle-Price and Mark Coxshall at William Edwards School in 2014

Doyle-Price lives in Purfleet, Thurrock.[51] She holds a surgery every month in Grays, Thurrock.[52] Her husband Mark Coxshall served as the Conservative leader of Thurrock Council from 2022 to 2023.[53] They have a son, George Coxshall, who is also a Conservative Thurrock councillor.[54]

Doyle-Price is a close friend of former prime minister Liz Truss,[55] and she endorsed her successful campaign in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.[56] In 1997, during her tenure as its chairwoman, Doyle-Price introduced Truss to the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association, which Truss herself would also chair from 1998 to 2000.[55][57][58]

Doyle-Price is a Roman Catholic.[9]

Honours

Nominated by Truss, Doyle-Price was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2023 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, for public and political service as Minister of State for Industry and as MP for Thurrock.[59][60][61]

Electoral history

General election 2019: Thurrock[62]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price 27,795 58.6 +19.1
Labour John Kent 16,313 34.4 −4.4
Liberal Democrats Stewart Stone 1,510 3.2 +1.6
Independent James Woollard 1,042 2.2 New
Green Ben Harvey 807 1.7 New
Majority 11,482 24.2 +23.5
Turnout 47,467 59.6 −4.8
Conservative hold Swing +11.8
General election 2017: Thurrock[63]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price 19,880 39.5 +5.8
Labour John Kent 19,535 38.8 +6.2
UKIP Tim Aker 10,112 20.1 −11.6
Liberal Democrats Kevin McNamara 798 1.6 +0.3
Majority 345 0.7 −0.4
Turnout 50,325 64.4 +0.5
Conservative hold Swing −0.2
General election 2015: Thurrock[64][65]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price 16,692 33.7 −3.1
Labour Polly Billington[66] 16,156 32.6 −4.0
UKIP Tim Aker[67] 15,718 31.7 +24.3
Liberal Democrats Rhodri Jamieson-Ball 644 1.3 −9.4
CISTA Jamie Barnes 244 0.5 New
Independent Daniel Munyambu 79 0.2 New
All People's Party Aba Kristilolu 31 0.1 New
Majority 536 1.1 +0.9
Turnout 49,564 63.9 +4.8
Conservative hold Swing +0.4
General election 2010: Thurrock[68][69]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price 16,869 36.8 +3.6
Labour Carl Morris 16,777 36.6 −9.6
Liberal Democrats Carys Davis 4,901 10.7 −0.4
BNP Emma Colgate 3,618 7.9 +2.1
UKIP Clive Broad 3,390 7.4 +4.0
CPA Arinola Araba 267 0.6 New
Majority 92 0.2 N/A
Turnout 45,822 59.1 +4.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +6.6
General election 2005: Sheffield Hillsborough[70]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Angela Smith 23,477 51.17 -5.66
Liberal Democrats John Commons 12,234 26.66 +4.09
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price 6,890 15.02 -3.32
BNP David Wright 2,010 4.38 New
UKIP Maurice Patterson 1,273 2.77 +0.51
Majority 11,243 24.51
Turnout 45,844 60.61
Labour hold Swing -4.87

Notes

  1. ↑ As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Industry. Office vacant between 6 July and 7 September 2022.
  2. ↑ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities (2017–2018).

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