Claire Coutinho
Claire Coutinho | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero | |
| Assumed office 8 July 2024 | |
| Leader | Rishi Sunak Kemi Badenoch |
| Preceded by | Ed Miliband |
| Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero | |
| In office 31 August 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Grant Shapps |
| Succeeded by | Ed Miliband |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing | |
| In office 28 October 2022 – 31 August 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Kelly Tolhurst |
| Succeeded by | David Johnston |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People, Health and Work | |
| In office 21 September 2022 – 28 October 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Liz Truss |
| Preceded by | Chloe Smith |
| Succeeded by | Tom Pursglove |
| Member of Parliament for East Surrey | |
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sam Gyimah |
| Majority | 7,450 (15.1%)[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho 8 July 1985 London, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
| Website | www |
Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho (born 8 July 1985) is a British politician and former investment banker. She was the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero from August 2023 to July 2024. She is a member of the Conservative Party. Coutinho has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Surrey since 2019.
She was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People from September to October 2022 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing from October 2022 to August 2023.
Coutinho was born on 8 July 1985 in London.[2][3] Her parents emigrated from India in the late 1970s and are from Goa.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "Results for a UK general election on 4 July 2024: England - by majority". UK Parliament. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ↑ "Members Sworn". UK Parliament. 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ↑ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2019: the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ↑ Pandit, Shiladitya (15 December 2019). "After UK polls, Pune family gets its first MP from East Surrey". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 September 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ↑ Cuniffe, Rachel (20 November 2023). "The quiet ruthlessness of Claire Coutinho". The New Statesman. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.