Three more new faces at the DWP
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has made three further appointments to the Department for Work and Pensions, including two under-secretaries of state and a parliamentary secretary.
Andrew Western and Baroness Maeve Sherlock have been made parliamentary under-secretaries of state.
Western is the MP for Stretford and Urmston, a seat he gained at the 2022 by-election. He was previously the leader of Trafford Council. Baroness Sherlock, an ordained priest, was made a life peer in 2010. In the early 2000s, she advised the chancellor on social issues.
Emma Reynolds is a parliamentary secretary in the DWP as well as the Treasury, with a background as a special adviser and in public relations.
The role of pensions minister was most recently an under-secretary role, having been ‘downgraded’ from minister of state for pensions in July 2016, when Richard Harrington took over the role.
Since 2010, there have been seven pensions ministers. The longest-serving among them was Guy Opperman, closely followed by Sir Steve Webb. The shortest stint was that of Alex Burghart under PM Liz Truss.
Who will become pensions minister?
