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{{Short description|British businesswoman and peer (born 1953)}}
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| name = The Baroness Neville-Rolfe
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE|CMG}}
| image = Official portrait of Baroness Neville-Rolfe crop 2, 2022.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2022
| office = [[Minister of State at the Cabinet Office
| primeminister = {{ubl|[[Liz Truss]]|[[Rishi Sunak]]}}
| primeminister = [[Liz Truss]]<br>[[Rishi Sunak]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministerial Appointments commencing: 25 October 2022 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-25-october-2022 |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref>▼
| term_start = 20 September 2022
| predecessor = [[
| successor =
| term_end = 5 July 2024
| office1 = Chair of [[Assured Food Standards]]
| primeminister1 = {{ubl|[[Theresa May]]
| term_start1 = 21 November 2017
| term_end1 = 26 October 2020
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| term_end2 = 13 June 2017
| predecessor2 = [[Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley|The Lord O'Neill of Gatley]]
| successor2 = [[
| office3 = [[Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property]]<!--No need to edit the wikilink, per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]]-->
| primeminister3 = [[Theresa May]]
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| term_start4 = 15 July 2014
| term_end4 = 13 July 2016
| predecessor4 = [[James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie|The Viscount Younger of Leckie]]▼
| primeminister4 = [[David Cameron]]▼
| status5 = [[Lord Temporal]]
| termlabel5 = Assumed [[life peer]]age
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|01|02|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Wardour, Wiltshire]], England, UK
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| children = 4 sons
| alt = Colour portrait photograph of Neville-Rolfe
▲| office5 = [[Member of the House of Lords]] <br />[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
▲| term_start5 = 29 October 2013<br />[[Life peer|Life Peerage]]
▲| predecessor4 = [[James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie|The Viscount Younger of Leckie]]
▲| successor4 = ''Position abolished''
▲| primeminister4 = [[David Cameron]]
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'''Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE|CMG}} (born 2 January 1953) is a British businesswoman and politician
Born in [[Wiltshire]], Neville-Rolfe worked as a senior [[
Neville-Rolfe was appointed a [[life peer]] in the [[House of Lords]] in 2013.<ref name="parliament1">{{cite web|title=Baroness Neville-Rolfe
==Early life==
Neville-Rolfe was born at [[Wardour, Wiltshire]], to the agricultural economist and artist Edmund Neville-Rolfe and Margaret Elizabeth (née Evans).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-29348|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U29348|chapter=Neville-Rolfe, Baroness, (Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe) (Born 2 Jan. 1953)|title=Who's Who|year=2007}}</ref><ref>The International Who's Who of Women 2002, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2001, p. 404</ref> She grew up on a farm at Wardour with her parents and four siblings. She attended [[Catholic]] [[convent school]]s before studying [[philosophy, politics and economics]] at [[Somerville College, Oxford]]. She graduated with a BA, which was later promoted to an [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA]]. She is an [[Honorary Fellow]] of the College.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/869/Honorary-Fellows.html|title=Honorary Fellows of Somerville College|publisher=Some.ox.ac.uk|accessdate=29 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101233355/http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/869/Honorary-Fellows.html|archivedate=1 November 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
==Career==
After leaving university, Neville-Rolfe worked in the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]]. She worked at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from
After the Conservatives were defeated in the 1997 election, Neville-Rolfe
[[National Life Stories]] conducted an oral history interview (C1087/15) with Neville-Rolfe in
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 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property |website=[[gov.uk]] |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--39 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110141954/https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state--39 |archivedate=10 November 2016 |accessdate=1 December 2016}}</ref>
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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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/ldallfiles/peers/lord_hansard_7024_os.html|title=Baroness Neville-Rolfe: spoken Hansard material by subject|publisher=Publications.parliament.uk|accessdate=29 March 2015}}</ref> Neville-Rolfe is a particularly prominent speaker on issues concerning business. The aim is to encourage government to facilitate and support UK businesses, to remove unnecessary tax and regulatory burdens, to roll-out [[broadband]] across the UK and to enable the growth of [[small businesses]]. She has also delivered speeches on UK foreign trade agreements, with particular interest in China and India. She also sat on the Parliamentary [[All-Party Parliamentary Group]] for Affordable Childcare.
Neville-Rolfe had many non-executive positions which she resigned on appointment. She was a [[non-executive director]] of [[ITV Plc]] and a member of the supervisory board of [[Metro Group]], a large German-based international retailer and wholesaler. Neville-Rolfe was also President of [[EuroCommerce]], the pan-European retail trade association, and sat on the boards of [[2 Sisters Food Group]] and Hermes Equity Ownership Services and on [[PwC]]'s Advisory Board. She is a former member of the [[London Business School]]'s
After leaving government, Neville-Rolfe took up a number of non-political private and public sector roles.
In December 2021, the [[Secretary of State for Work and Pensions]], [[Thérèse Coffey]], appointed her to lead the
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==Honours and awards==
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==Personal life==
Neville-Rolfe is married to [[Richard Packer (civil servant)|Sir Richard Packer]], who was Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1993 until 2000. They have four sons. Her husband was knighted in 2001. From 2001 until she entered the House of Lords in 2013, her title was ''Lady Packer''.
==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-neville-rolfe/4284 Baroness Neville-Rolfe] – House of Lords
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/10221802/Dame-Lucy-Neville-Rolfe-Weve-got-to-bring-the-Lords-into-the-21st-century.html The Daily Telegraph: "Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe: '
* [http://www.prweek.com/article/1217241/lifetime-achievement-award-baroness-lucy-neville-rolfe PRWeek: "Lifetime achievement award: Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe"]
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