Nigel Huddleston
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Assumed office
13 November 2023
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byVictoria Atkins
Minister of State for International Trade[lower-alpha 1]
In office
30 October 2022 – 13 November 2023
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byJames Duddridge
Succeeded byGreg Hands[lower-alpha 2]
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office
20 September 2022 – 7 February 2023
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Succeeded byStuart Anderson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society[lower-alpha 3]
In office
13 February 2020 – 20 September 2022
Prime Minister
Preceded byNigel Adams[lower-alpha 4]
Helen Whately[lower-alpha 5]
Succeeded byStuart Andrew
Member of Parliament
for Mid Worcestershire
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byPeter Luff
Majority28,018 (49.9%)
Personal details
Born (1970-10-13) 13 October 1970
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Political partyConservative
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
University of California, Los Angeles (MBA)
Websitenigelhuddleston.com

Nigel Paul Huddleston (born 13 October 1970) is a British politician serving as Financial Secretary to the Treasury since November 2023.[1] He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister of State for International Trade from February to November 2023.[2] A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Worcestershire since 2015.

Early life and education

Nigel Paul Huddleston was born in Lincoln, England,[3][4] on 13 October 1970.[5] He was educated at the Robert Pattinson Comprehensive School, a state secondary school in North Hykeham in Lincolnshire,[6] followed by Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied politics and economics.[4] He received an Masters in Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California.[4]

Career

Huddleston started his career as a consultant for Arthur Andersen. He continued his career at Deloitte, and later worked as the industry head of travel for Google.[4]

In 2010, Huddleston was the Conservative candidate for Luton South, and lost by 2,329 votes to Labour's Gavin Shuker. In 2014, he was selected as a parliamentary candidate in a primary election in which anyone on the constituency's electoral register was eligible to vote. The constituency association did not publish the votes that each candidate received.[7] Since the 2015 general election, he has been the Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire.

Huddleston is a board member of the Tory Reform Group.[5] In Parliament, he sat on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.[8]

Huddleston was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum on EU membership.[9]

In February 2019, Huddleston was appointed as the Conservatives' new vice chairman for youth. He was responsible for attracting young people to the party's ranks.[10] After Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, Huddleston was appointed as an assistant whip, leaving his role as vice chairman.

In the 2020 cabinet reshuffle, Huddleston was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage, replacing Nigel Adams and Helen Whately.[11] During 2021, he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport and Tourism. On 8 October 2021, Huddleston took over the duties of the former role of Parliamentary under-secretary of state for civil society, held by The Baroness Barran until the role was abolished. Huddleston then became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.[12]

Personal life

Huddleston lives in Badsey, Worcestershire, with his wife Melissa, who is American, and their two children.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (2022–2023).
  2. ↑ As Minister of State for Trade Policy
  3. ↑ As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage from 2020 to 2021. Huddleston served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport and Tourism from February to October 2021. The former role of Minister for Civil Society was held by The Baroness Barran until the role was abolished.
  4. ↑ As Minister of State for Sport, Media and Creative Industries.
  5. ↑ As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism.

References

  1. ↑ "Ministerial appointments: November 2023". GOV.UK. 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  2. ↑ "Ministerial Appointments commencing: 25 October 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "No. 61230". The London Gazette. 18 May 2015. p. 9126.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "About Me". Nigel Huddleston.
  5. 1 2 "Your representatives | Nigel Huddleston". BBC Democracy Live. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Nigel Huddleston, MP for Mid Worcestershire". Mid Worcestershire Conservative Association. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Mid-Worcestershire public pick Nigel as Tory candidate in 2015 after 'primary' selection". Mid Worcestershire Conservative Association. 23 November 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Membership - Culture, Media and Sport Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016). "Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  10. ↑ Cowburn, Ashley (12 February 2019). "Conservatives appoint 48-year-old MP as youth spokesman". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  11. ↑ "Tourism Minister's speech at the Extraordinary G20 Tourism Ministers' Meeting on Covid-19". GOV.UK. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  12. ↑ Ricketts, Andy (8 October 2021). "Sector loses dedicated minister as charities brief is reintegrated back into sport role". Third Sector. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
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