The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments: ·
Sir Gerald Grimstone to be an unpaid Minister of State jointly at
the Department for International Trade and the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; · Stephen Greenhalgh to
be an unpaid Minister of State jointly at the Ministry of Housing,
Communities and Local Government and the Home Office . The Queen
has been pleased to signify Her intention of conferring peerages of
the United Kingdom for Life on...Request free trial
The Queen has been pleased to approve the following
appointments:
· Sir Gerald Grimstone to be an unpaid Minister of State jointly at
the Department for International Trade and the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy;
· Stephen Greenhalgh to be an unpaid Minister of State jointly at
the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the
Home Office .
The Queen has been pleased to signify Her intention of conferring
peerages of the United Kingdom for Life on both.
Notes to Editors:
· Sir Gerry Grimstone has run businesses in the UK, US and Asia,
including serving as the Chairman of Barclays and of Standard Life
Aberdeen. He has been a Non-Executive Director of Deloitte, lead
Non-Executive Director of the Ministry of Defence and co-Chair of
the UK-India CEO Forum. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College,
Oxford. From 2012-15, Sir Gerry served as Chairman of TheCityUK,
the representative body for the financial and professional services
industry in the UK. He began his career as a civil servant with HM
Treasury. He was knighted in 2014 for public service to defence and
business.
· Stephen Greenhalgh was Council Leader of the London Borough of
Hammersmith and Fulham between 2006 and 2012, having first been
elected as a councillor in 1996. He is a former Deputy Mayor of
London, serving in that role between 2012 and 2016 as head of the
Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime. He began his business career
with Proctor and Gamble and later PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has
been a Director of BIBA Medical, a company he established in the
1990s, and also a trustee of the Camelia Botnar Arterial Research
Foundation.
