Cheryl Gillan

Cheryl Gillan (2010)

Lady Cheryl Gillan Elise Kendall (* 21st April 1952 in Llandaff, Cardiff , Wales ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party . From May 2010 to September 2012 she held the post of Minister for Wales.

biography

The daughter of an officer of the British Army and later director of a steel - company studied after school attendance law and later at International Management Group (IMG) operates one in the areas of legal advice and sports marketing make international group based in Cleveland , Ohio . She was also director of the British Film Year between 1984 and 1986 .

In the general election on April 9, 1992 , she was elected to succeed Ian Gilmour and candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and has since represented the constituency of Chesham and Amersham . In the general election in 2010, she last received 60.25 percent of the vote and was able to assert herself clearly against her four opposing candidates.

In this function, she was initially the parliamentary contact person for the Royal Air Force and visited numerous air force bases at home and abroad on flights with a wide variety of aircraft types .

Her first government office was in 1994 as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Privy Seal , Viscount Cranborne , in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major . In 1995 she became Parliamentary Undersecretary in the Ministry of Education and Employment.

After the Conservatives were defeated in the general election in 1997 , she first became the opposition spokeswoman for trade and industry, before she was opposition spokeswoman for foreign affairs, Commonwealth of Nations affairs and international development from 1998 to 2001 . In 2001 she was appointed parliamentary director ( Whip ) of the conservative parliamentary group in the lower house.

Subsequently, in 2003, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Party for the first time , where she was shadow minister for the interior, constitutional and legal affairs. She was then shadow minister for Wales between 2005 and May 2010.

After the Conservative Party's victory in the general election in 2010 , Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her Minister for Wales in his cabinet on May 11, 2010 . This made her the first woman to head the Ministry for Wales despite not having a constituency in Wales. As Secretary of State, she continued to rely on a strong Army presence in Wales, which she believed was essential to the development and growth of high-tech and other businesses in the Welsh economy.

In 2017 she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

Web links

• Homepage of Cheryl Gillan
• Homepage of the House of Commons
• Conservative Party homepage
• Homepage as a Member of Parliament ( They Work For You )
• Interview (European Database: Women in Decision-making)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC NEWS: Cheryl Gillan, the first woman Welsh secretary (May 12, 2010)