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Andrew George Stephenson CBE (born 17 February 1981) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care since November 2023.[1] A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire since 2010.
Stephenson served as Minister of State for Africa from 2019 to 2020 as well as, prior to that, in junior ministerial roles at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Government Whips Office. He was appointed Minister of State with responsibility for HS2 at the Department of Transport at the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle.[2] He was Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio, attending cabinet, from July to September 2022, in the caretaker government of Boris Johnson.[3] He was subsequently appointed as a member of the Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 8 July, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable" for life. He then went on to serve as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities between September and October 2022 and as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from October 2022 to November 2023.[4][5]
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