Former education secretary Damian Hinds has returned to the Department for Education as a minister of state, Downing Street has announced.
It is unclear at this stage whether he is replacing schools minister Nick Gibb, who resigned this morning to pursue a job in the diplomatic service, but as of this evening Gibb’s role was the only one vacant.
If he is appointed to the schools brief, he will be the sixth person to hold the role in 18 months.
Hinds led the DfE between January 2018 and July 2019, during which time the government completed its reforms to relationships, sex and health education. If he takes the schools brief, he is likely to preside over the current review of those reforms.
