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Congratulations to Robin Walker (Balliol 1997) on being appointed Minister of State for School Standards in the latest government reshuffle.
In taking up his new appointment he leaves his role as Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office, to which he was appointed in February 2020. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office (December 2019-February 2020); Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and the Northern Ireland Office (July to December 2019); and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union (July 2016-July 2019). He has been Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Worcester since 2010. You can read his full profile here.
Robin Walker has long advocated the case for fairer funding in schools. Earlier in his career he was vice-Chair of the cross-party f40 campaign and then he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education on the cross-party f40 campaign. He described his new role as ‘an enormous challenge and a huge opportunity to level up & support the next generation’.
We also congratulate David Johnston (Balliol 2000) on being appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department of Education. David Johnston OBE has been Member of Parliament for Wantage since 2019.