Dame Jackie Doyle-Price | |
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Minister of State for Industry | |
In office 7 September 2022 –27 October 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss |
Preceded by | Lee Rowley [lower-alpha 1] |
Succeeded by | Nus 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 Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Nadine Dorries |
Assistant Government Whip [1] [2] | |
In office 13 May 2015 –14 June 2017 | |
Prime Minister |
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Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Chloe Smith [3] |
Member of Parliament for Thurrock | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
Preceded by | Andrew MacKinlay |
Majority | 11,482 (24.2%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Jacqueline Doyle-Price 5 August 1969 Sheffield,England |
Political party | Conservative |
Residence(s) | Purfleet,England |
Alma mater | University College,Durham (BA) |
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Website | Official 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] and returned to the back benches following the appointment of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister in October 2022. [8]
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 was a bricklayer whilst her mother Kathleen worked part-time as a sales assistant at Woolworths. [14] [15] She was raised in the suburbs of Hillsborough and Wisewood. [12] [10] [16] 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] 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 in 1991. [11] [14]
Shortly after graduating from university,Doyle-Price became a researcher before spending 18 months moving between temporary jobs and unemployment. [16] In 1992,she was employed by the South Yorkshire Police as an administrative officer, [14] which became her first permanent job. [16] 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 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]
Doyle-Price first stood for election to parliament in the 2005 general election,where she was the Conservative candidate for Sheffield Hillsborough and came third with 15.02% of the vote behind the Labour MP Angela Smith and the Liberal Democrat candidate. [21]
At the 2010 general election,Doyle-Price was elected as MP for Thurrock with 36.8% of the vote and a majority of 92. [22] [23] [24]
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 to the Dartford Crossing and on the Government postponement of work to improve Junction 30 of the M25. [25]
In May 2012 she was elected Chairman of the All-Party Gurkha Welfare Group. [26]
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. [27] [28]
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. [29] On 14 January 2014,she led a debate in Westminster Hall on options for the new Lower Thames Crossing. [30]
At the 2015 general election,Doyle-Price was re-elected as MP for Thurrock with a decreased vote share of 33.7% and an majority of 536. [31] [32]
Doyle-Price was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 EU membership referendum. [33]
In the House of Commons she has sat on the Public Accounts Committee and Committee of Selection [34] and Women and Equalities Committee. [35]
At the snap 2017 general election,Doyle-Price was again re-elected,with an increased vote share of 39.5% and a decreased majority of 345. [36]
In 2019,Doyle-Price abstained on a bill to legalise gay marriage in Northern Ireland. [37]
At the 2019 general election,Doyle-Price was again re-elected,with an increased vote share of 58.6% and an increased majority of 11,482. [38]
In July 2020,Doyle-Price was critical of the availability of what she described as "dangerous" gender-affirming healthcare for trans children. [39] 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. [40]
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." [41]
Following the 2015 general election,Doyle-Price was appointed as an assistant whip. [42]
Following the 2017 general election,Doyle-Price was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities in the Department for Health. [43] In October 2018,she given additional ministerial responsibility for suicide prevention and co-chaired the Women's Mental Health Taskforce. [44] [45] She left the government following the election of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party, [46] 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.
Doyle-Price lives in Purfleet,Thurrock. [47] She holds a surgery every month in Grays,Thurrock. [48] Her husband Mark Coxshall served as the Conservative leader of Thurrock Council from 2022 to 2023. [49] They have a son,George Coxshall,who is also a Conservative Thurrock councillor. [50]
Doyle-Price employs her husband Mark Coxshall as her part-time Office Manager on a salary up to £30,000. [51] The practice of MPs employing family members has been criticised by some sections of the media on the lines that it promotes nepotism. [52] [53] Although MPs who were first elected in the 2017 general election have been banned from employing family members,the restriction is not retrospective –meaning that Doyle-Price's employment of her partner is lawful. [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]
Doyle-Price was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 29 December 2023 in the Truss's resignation honours list,for public and political service as Minister of State for Industry and as MP for Thurrock. [59] [60] [61] [62]
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