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Neville-Rolfe joined the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer in October 2013 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property from July 2014 until July 2016. From May 2015 she was also Parliamentary
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Before assuming her ministerial responsibilities she spoke in the House of Lords on business, vocational education, broadband, regulatory reform and competitiveness issues. Neville-Rolfe is a particularly prominent speaker on issues concerning business. The aim is to encourage government to
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After leaving government, Neville-Rolfe took up a number of non-political private and public sector roles. In 2019, she became chair of the UKASEAN Business Council. In December 2020, she was appointed chairman of the
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Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Neville-Rolfe was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 17 July 2016.
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in January 2013. While at Tesco the company moved from its core UK grocery roots into non-food services – and 13 overseas markets across the world.
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After the Conservatives were defeated in the 1997 election, Neville-Rolfe left politics and took up a position at
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National Life Stories, 'Neville-Rolfe, Lucy (1 of 25) Tesco – an Oral History', The British Library Board, 2008
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In September 2022, she returned to government and resigned from her other roles, having been appointed
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The Daily Telegraph: "Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe: 'We've got to bring the Lords into the 21st century'"
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facilitate and support UK businesses, to remove unnecessary tax and regulatory burdens, to roll-out
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The International Who's Who of Women 2002, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2001, p. 404
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Neville-Rolfe had many non-executive positions which she resigned on appointment. She was a
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for services to industry and voluntary service. On 10 September 2013 she was created a
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conducted an oral history interview (C1087/15) with Neville-Rolfe in 2005–2008 for its
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and served as group director of corporate affairs from 1997 to 2006. She served as
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for services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Board of Management, and a
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PRWeek: "Lifetime achievement award: Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe"
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Intellectual Property
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from 2004 to 2006. She served on the board from 2006 as
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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After leaving university, Neville-Rolfe worked in the
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Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property
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Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property
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Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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The Right Honourable
DBE
CMG
Colour portrait photograph of Neville-Rolfe
Minister of State at the Cabinet Office
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
The Lord True
Assured Food Standards
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Christine Tacon
Commercial Secretary to the Treasury
Theresa May
The Lord O'Neill of Gatley
The Lord Agnew of Oulton
Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property
Theresa May
Andrea Leadsom
Nick Hurd
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Intellectual Property
David Cameron
The Viscount Younger of Leckie
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
life peerage
Wardour, Wiltshire
Conservative
Sir Richard Packer
Alma mater

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