Sajid Javid

The Right Honourable Sir Sajid Javid MP
Official portrait, 2021
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
In office 26 June 2021 – 5 July 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Matt Hancock
Succeeded by	Steve Barclay
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 24 July 2019 – 13 February 2020
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Philip Hammond
Succeeded by	Rishi Sunak
Home Secretary
In office 30 April 2018 – 24 July 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Amber Rudd
Succeeded by	Priti Patel
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government[a]
In office 13 July 2016 – 30 April 2018
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Greg Clark
Succeeded by	James Brokenshire
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills President of the Board of Trade
In office 12 May 2015 – 13 July 2016
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Vince Cable
Succeeded by	Greg Clark
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In office 9 April 2014 – 11 May 2015
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Maria Miller
Succeeded by	John Whittingdale
Minister for Equalities
In office 9 April 2014 – 15 July 2014
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Maria Miller
Succeeded by	Nicky Morgan
Junior ministerial offices Financial Secretary to the Treasury In office 7 October 2013 – 9 April 2014 Prime Minister David Cameron Preceded by Greg Clark Succeeded by Nicky Morgan Economic Secretary to the Treasury In office 4 September 2012 – 7 October 2013 Prime Minister David Cameron Preceded by Chloe Smith Succeeded by Nicky Morgan
Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Julie Kirkbride
Majority	23,106 (42.6%)
Personal details
Born	(1969-12-05) 5 December 1969 (age 54) Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Laura King ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	4
Residences	Bristol, England Chelsea, London Fulham, London
Education	Downend School Filton College
Alma mater	University of Exeter (BA)
Occupation	Politician economist former banker
Signature
Website	www.sajidjavid.com
^ Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from July 2016 until January 2018

Sir Sajid Javid (/ˈsædʒɪd ˈdʒævɪd/; born 5 December 1969) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from June 2021 to July 2022, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2018 to 2019 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove since 2010.

Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, to a British Pakistani family, Javid was raised largely in Bristol. He studied Economics and Politics at the University of Exeter, where he joined the Conservative Party. Working in banking, he rose to become a managing director at Deutsche Bank. He was elected to the House of Commons in May 2010. Under the coalition government of David Cameron he was a Junior Treasury Minister before being promoted to Cameron's Cabinet as Culture Secretary, following Maria Miller's resignation. Following the 2015 general election, Cameron promoted Javid to Business Secretary.

Javid was a prominent supporter of the unsuccessful Britain Stronger in Europe campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union. Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union, he went on to serve under Cameron's successor Prime Minister Theresa May, as Communities Secretary from 2016 to 2018. When Amber Rudd resigned as a result of the Windrush scandal in 2018, Javid was appointed as her successor as Home Secretary, becoming the first British Asian and first Muslim to hold one of the Great Offices of State. Following May's resignation, Javid stood for election as Leader of the Conservative Party in the 2019 leadership contest, finishing in fourth place. The successful candidate, Boris Johnson, appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer in his first Cabinet. Javid resigned as Chancellor during the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle after refusing a demand from Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings that he dismiss his advisers, and was succeeded by Rishi Sunak.

In June 2021, following the resignation of Matt Hancock, he was reappointed to Johnson's cabinet as Health Secretary. This made him a prominent figure in the UK government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which he supported an end to most generalised public health restrictions, such as face mask mandates until the emergence of the highly transmissible Deltacron hybrid variant from June 2021 until the end of March 2022, and he also expanded the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom. Following the Chris Pincher scandal, Javid resigned as Health Secretary on 5 July 2022, and was the first of 62 Conservative MPs to resign during the government crisis, which culminated in Johnson's own resignation. He returned to the backbenches and was succeeded by Steve Barclay.

Javid stood to replace Johnson in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election but withdrew from the race before he could be nominated, subsequently endorsing Liz Truss. In December 2022, Javid said that he would not stand for re-election at the next UK general election, due to be held in autumn 2024.^[1]