Lucy Neville-Rolfe: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|British businesswoman and peer (born 1953)}}

| image = Official portrait of Baroness Neville-Rolfe crop 2, 2022.jpg

| office = [[Minister of State at the Cabinet Office|Minister of State For the Government Efficiency]]

| predecessor = [[Nicholas True, Baron True|The Lord True]]

| term_end = 5 July 2024

| primeminister1 = {{ubl|[[Theresa May]]<br />|[[Boris Johnson]]}}

| successor2 = [[Theodore Agnew, Baron Agnew of Oulton|The Lord Agnew of Oulton]]{{efn|As ([[Minister of State) for the Treasury]].}}

'''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 servingwho served as [[Minister for the Cabinet Office|Minister of State inat the Cabinet Office]] sincefrom September 2022 to July 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministerial Appointments: September 2022 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-september-2022 |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite Sheweb is|url currently= Chairhttps://www.gov.uk/government/people/baroness-neville-rolfe-dbe of|title Crown= AgentsBaroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG |website = GOV.UK |access-date = 24 July 2024}}</ref> A member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], she served asin ministerial positions under prime ministers [[CommercialDavid SecretaryCameron]], to[[Theresa the TreasuryMay]], from[[Liz 2016Truss]], toand 2017[[Rishi Sunak]]. In December 2021, she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.

Born in [[Wiltshire]], Neville-Rolfe worked as a senior [[Civil Servant|civil servant]] at the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)|Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food]] from 1973 to 1992, and at the [[Prime Minister's Policy Unit]] at [[10 Downing Street]] from 1992 to 1994. She then worked at [[Tesco]] (1997–2013), serving on the Boardboard of Directorsdirectors from 2006.

Neville-Rolfe was appointed a [[life peer]] in the [[House of Lords]] in 2013.<ref name="parliament1">{{cite web|title=Baroness Neville-Rolfe -– UK Parliament|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-neville-rolfe/4284|accessdate=19 July 2016|publisher=Parliament.uk}}</ref> She served in the [[second May ministry|first government]] of [[Theresa May]] as [[Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property]] at the [[Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy]] from July to December 2016 and as [[Commercial Secretary to the Treasury]] from 2016 to 2017. She became chair of [[Assured Food Standards]] in November 2017, stepping down in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|last=White2017-11-21T10:10:00+00:00|first=Kevin|title=Lucy Neville-Rolfe appointed Assured Food Standards chairman|url=https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/movers/lucy-neville-rolfe-appointed-assured-food-standards-chairman/560361.article|website=The Grocer}}</ref>

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>

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 1973–19921973 to 1992. SheDuring [[John Major]]'s tenure as Prime Minister, she was a Member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1992 to 1994. Sheand served asthe Directordirector of the Deregulation Unit in the [[Cabinet Office]] from 1995–971995 to 1997.

After the Conservatives were defeated in the 1997 election, Neville-Rolfe thenleft politics and took up a position at [[Tesco]] and served as Groupgroup Directordirector of Corporatecorporate Affairsaffairs from 1997 to 2006. She served as [[Companycompany Secretarysecretary]] from 2004–20062004 to 2006. She served on the Boardboard from 2006 as [[Executiveexecutive Directordirector]] (Corporatecorporate and Legallegal Affairsaffairs) until she [[retired]] in January 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8650498&ticker=TSCO|title=Executive Compensation & Stock Trading|publisher=Investing.businessweek.com|accessdate=29 March 2015}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> While at Tesco the company moved from its core UK grocery roots into non-food services – and 13 overseas markets across the world.

[[National Life Stories]] conducted an oral history interview (C1087/15) with Neville-Rolfe in 2005-20082005–2008 for its ''Tesco: An Oral History'' collection held by the [[British Library]].<ref name=oralhistory>[http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Food/021M-C1087X0015XX-0001V0 National Life Stories, 'Neville-Rolfe, Lucy (1 of 25) Tesco -– an Oral History', The British Library Board, 2008]. Retrieved 1 February 2018</ref>

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 Governinggoverning Bodybody.<ref name="parliament1"/>

After leaving government, Neville-Rolfe took up a number of non-political private and public sector roles. SinceIn 2019, she hasbecame been Chairchair of the UKASEAN Business Council. In December 2020, she was appointed Chairmanchairman of the [[Crown Agents]]. She also took up roles as a non-executive director of Capita PLC<ref>https://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/stockreport/default.aspx?Site=uk&id=0P00007O2L&LanguageId=en-GB&SecurityToken=0P00007O2L]3]0]E0WWE$$ALL</ref> and as a non-executive director of Secure Trust Bank and Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company.

In December 2021, the [[Secretary of State for Work and Pensions]], [[Thérèse Coffey]], appointed her to lead the government’sgovernment's review into the state pension age.

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* [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: 'We’veWe've got to bring the Lords into the 21st century’century'"]

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