Andrew Lansley MP

Secretary of State for Health; MP, South Cambridgeshire

Andrew Lansley was educated at the University of Exeter and began his career working as a civil servant in the Department of Trade and Industry. He has since held a number of positions, including Director of the Conservative Research Department (1990-95) and Vice Chairman of the Party responsible for Policy Renewal (1998). He has served as Vice-President of the Local Government Association since 1996 and Shadow Secretary State for Health since 2003, and was elected as MP for South Cambridgeshire in 1997. Following the 2010 general election and the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government he was made Secretary of State for Health.