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Helen Grant is a British Conservative MP for Maidstone and Malling since 2010. She has served as a minister for sport, tourism, justice and women and equalities, and as a special envoy for girls' education.
Helen Grant is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Maidstone and Malling, a constituency in Kent. Find out more about her, her news, her advice, her surgeries, her plan and her contact details on her official website.
- Biography
- Education
- Career
- Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Girls’ Education
- Previous roles in government
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Helen Grant was appointed in January 2021 as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Girls’ Education. Helen is also the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Nigeria.
Helen was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society from October 2013 to March 2015. She was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Minister for the Courts and Victims and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Women and Equalities from September 2012 to October 2013.
Helen studied law at Hull University and practised as a family solicitor after qualifying in 1988. She set up Grants Solicitors in 1996, focusing specifically on the problems of family breakdown.
She served on the Justice Select Committee until 2011 and was appointed to the Conservative social justice policy group in 2006. She joined Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank the Centre for Social Justice, for which she has written extensively on family policy.
Special representatives use their expertise to develop a greater coherent effort in making sure that the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office can work closely and effectively with foreign powers.
The Special Envoy for Girls’ Education will help accelerate progress towards getting more girls in the world’s poorest countries into schools and benefitting from quality learning. Working closely with international partners, the Special Envoy will encourage greater global ambition, coordination, and investment on girls’ education.
•Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society
•Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Minister for the Courts and Victims
Helen Grant is the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Girls’ Education and Trade Envoy to Nigeria. She was a Minister for Sport, Justice and Women and Equalities from 2012 to 2015.
May 6, 2010 · Find contact information for Helen Grant, the MP for Maidstone and Malling since 2010. You can reach her by phone, email or post at her parliamentary or constituency office.
Jul 4, 2024 · Helen Grant is one of the few Conservatives to hold onto a seat, winning Maidstone and Malling with 14,146 votes.
Find out what Helen Grant MP, the Conservative MP for Maidstone and The Weald, has been doing in Parliament. See her latest questions, answers and debates on topics such as housing, sports, pollution and health.
May 6, 2010 · Helen Grant is a UK Parliament member since 2010, representing the constituency of Maidstone and Malling. She has held various government posts, including at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Ministry of Justice.
