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Matt Hancock

Matt Hancock MP has been Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since January 2018. Before that, he was Minister of State for Digital from July 2016 to January 2018. Hancock entered government in September 2012 and has served in a number of Ministerial Roles, including for skills and business, and as Paymaster General. He oversaw the expansion of apprenticeships and championed the digital transformation of government. He was elected Member of the Parliament for West Suffolk in the 2010 general election where he served as a backbencher on the Public Accounts Committee and the Standards & Privileges Committee. Before entering politics, he worked as an economist at the Bank of England, and as Chief of Staff to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hancock holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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