The Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MP
Biography
Nadine Dorries was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 15 September 2021.
Nadine Dorries was previously appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care in May 2020, having been promoted from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the department, appointed on 27 July 2019.
She was elected as the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire in May 2005.
Education
She trained as a nurse at Warrington General Hospital.
Political career
Nadine was previously an adviser to the former Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Oliver Letwin MP.
Career outside politics
Nadine began her career as a nurse, then went on to set up her own business and later became a director at BUPA. She has also published a number of books.
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the department and management of the UK transition for the department.
Responsibilities include:
- Arts and Culture
- Broadcasting
- Creative industries
- Creative Industries Council
- Cultural property, heritage and the historic environment
- Cultural Renewal Taskforce
- Culture, sports and arts sector recovery from COVID-19
- Gambling and racing
- Libraries
- Media ownership and mergers
- Museums and galleries
- The National Lottery
- Sport
- Telecommunications and online
- Tourism
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
Previous roles in government
Announcements
Subscriptions
- £800 million Reinsurance Scheme officially opens to help give festivals, conferences and live events cover to plan with confidence
- Italian Baroque busts worth over £850,000 at risk of leaving UK
- Britain’s ‘gigaboom’ brings next-generation broadband to 1 in 2 premises
- Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries' London Tech Week keynote speech
- Government pledges £2.45 million to improve childbirth care
- The vital role of medical examiners
- New Action Group to boost mental health education
- Update on the government’s response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review
- Statement on the Ockenden review of maternity services
- Sleep disorder drug modafinil linked to increased risk of birth defects and also to reduced effectiveness of contraception