Lucy Frazer, MP for the South East Cambridgeshire constituency that includes Histon & Impington, has joined The Cabinet for the first time. She succeeds Michelle Donelan as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and will be the 8th holder of this post in the last 5 years.
In her new role, she will have responsibility for strategy and policy in a slimmed-down Department that has been renamed the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Affectionately known as the ‘Ministry of Fun’, its portfolio will now include the arts, the BBC, sport and tourism. The digital role that was previously part of its brief has been moved into a new ministry focusing on science and technology.
A Newnham College graduate and former President of the Cambridge Union, Lucy Frazer was first elected as an MP at the 2015 general election, following the retirement of Jim Paice as the village’s representative in parliament. She has held less senior Government posts since 2018, when she became Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Justice.
The Culture Secretary role will be her 6th ministerial position in less than two years. Her most recent roles have been as:
Acting Solicitor General for England and Wales (2 March 2021 – 10 September 2021)
Minister of State for Prisons and Probation (10 September 2021 – 16 September 2021)
Financial Secretary to the Treasury (16 September 2021 – 7 September 2022)
Minister of State for Transport (8 September 2022 – 26 October 2022)
Minister of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (26 October 2022 – 7 February 2023)