Claire Coutinho, the MP for East Surrey, has been appointed as a minister at the Department for Education.
She was appointed as minister for disabled people just last month, and became an MP in 2019.
She will join the department as a junior minister. Coutinho work at investment bank Merrill Lynch and accounting firm KPMG before being elected to parliament. She’s also served as a special adviser at the Treasury.
She will join Nick Gibb, who Schools Week understands will be named schools minister, and Robert Halfon, who is set to be named skills minister.
