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Liz Sugg, Baroness Sugg

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The Baroness Sugg
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development [1]
Assumed office
23 April 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byThe Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
(Overseas Territories)
The Lord Bates
(International Development)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
27 October 2017 – 23 April 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byThe Lord Callanan
Succeeded byThe Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Baroness-in-Waiting
Government Whip
In office
11 June 2017 – 27 October 2017
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byThe Baroness Buscombe
Succeeded byThe Baroness Stedman-Scott
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
30 August 2016
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1977-05-02) 2 May 1977 (age 47)
Political partyConservative

Elizabeth Grace Sugg, Baroness Sugg, CBE (born 2 May 1977) is a British Conservative politician and political adviser. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on 23 April 2019.[2] She served as Head of Operations at 10 Downing Street under the premiership of David Cameron.

Sugg graduated from Newcastle University. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.[3]

She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Sugg, of Coldharbour in the London Borough of Lambeth, on 30 August 2016.[4]

She was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport (and minister for aviation) on 27 October 2017 replacing Lord Callanan. She had previously been a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting).[5]

References

  1. ^ Overseas Territories from February 2020
  2. ^ "Baroness Sugg CBE - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  3. ^ "No. 61359". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 September 2015. p. 17615.
  4. ^ "No. 61694". The London Gazette. 5 September 2016. p. 18840.
  5. ^ "Ministerial appointments: 27 October 2017". Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.