Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister of State for Schools)

Organisations: Department for Education
Current role holder: The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • school accountability and inspection (including links with Ofsted)
  • Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment
  • supporting a high-quality teaching profession including professional development
  • supporting recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders including initial teacher training
  • Teaching Regulation Agency
  • National Tutoring Programme
  • school revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools
  • pupil premium
  • school food, including free school meals
  • qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
  • curriculum including relationships, sex, and health education and personal, social, health and economic education
  • behaviour, attendance and exclusions
  • school sport
  • digital strategy and technology in education (EdTech)
  • admissions and school transport

Current role holder

The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP

Nick Gibb was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Education on 26 October 2022.

He was previously Minister of State (Minister for School Standards) at the Department for Education between July 2014 and September 2021.

Nick was elected Conservative MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton in 1997.

Political career

Nick served as:

  • Minister of State for Schools from May 2010 until September 2012
  • Shadow Minister for Schools from 2005 until 2010

(Photo source UK Parliament website. Used under Creative Commons).

More about this person

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP

    2015 to 2016

  2. The Rt Hon David Laws

    2012 to 2015

  3. The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP

    2010 to 2012