James Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm

The Right Honourable The Lord Wharton of Yarm
Official portrait, 2024
Chair of the Office for Students
In office 1 April 2021 – 9 July 2024
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Michael Barber
Succeeded by	TBC
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development
In office 17 July 2016 – 8 June 2017
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Nick Hurd
Succeeded by	Zac Goldsmith (2019)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Growth and Northern Powerhouse
In office 11 May 2015 – 17 July 2016
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Penny Mordaunt
Succeeded by	Andrew Percy
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 September 2020 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Stockton South
In office 6 May 2010 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by	Dari Taylor
Succeeded by	Paul Williams
Personal details
Born	James Stephen Wharton (1984-02-16) 16 February 1984 (age 40) Wolviston, County Durham, England
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	University College, Durham University of Law

James Stephen Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm (born 16 February 1984) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for his home constituency of Stockton South from the 2010 general election, until losing his seat in the 2017 general election.^[1] Wharton was appointed Minister for the Northern Powerhouse after his re-election in 2015 and moved to a ministerial position in the Department for International Development by Theresa May in 2016. In September 2020, he took his seat as a member of the House of Lords, taking the title Baron Wharton of Yarm.