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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 serving as [[Minister for the Cabinet Office|Minister of State at the Cabinet Office]] since September 2022.<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> A member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], she has served in ministerial positions under prime ministers [[David Cameron]], [[Theresa May]], [[Liz Truss]], and [[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 board of directors 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>
 
==Early life==
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After the Conservatives were defeated in the 1997 election, Neville-Rolfe left politics and took up a position at [[Tesco]] and served as group director of corporate affairs from 1997 to 2006. She served as [[company secretary]] from 2004 to 2006. She served on the board from 2006 as [[executive director]] (corporate and legal affairs) 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 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>