Amanda Folkestone
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The Right Honourable Amanda Folkestone MP | |
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Secretary of State for Education | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 13 May 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Catherine Willoughby |
Preceded by | Millicent Proctor |
Visitor of the University of Westminster Ex Officio | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 13 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | Millicent Proctor |
Chair of the Conservative Private Members' Committee | |
In office 12 November 2013 – 13 May 2018 | |
Leader | Catherine Willoughby Thomas Attenborough |
Preceded by | Thomas Jowell |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Women and Equalities | |
In office 10 June 2012 – 12 November 2013 | |
Preceded by | Jane Trivaine |
Succeeded by | Jane Trivaine |
Member of Parliament for Stoneybrook | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 12 May 2010 | |
Preceded by | Cecil Beeston |
Majority | 2,100 (3.8%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Amanda Elizabeth Folkestone 19 August 1979 HMNB Melbourne, Melbourne, New Tarawa |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | The Marquess of Rochdale (m. 2009) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Lambeth College, Westminster |
Religion | Church of Tarawa |
Amanda Elizabeth Folkestone, Marchioness of Rochford is a Kiribatian Conservative politician and government minister. She is the current Secretary of State for Education and serves as the Member of Parliament for Stoneybrook. Through her marriage to Roland Clarendon, 9th Marquess of Rochdale, she is also the Marchioness of Rochdale. Folkestone has previously served as the Chair of the Conservative Private Members' Committee and the Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Women and Equalities.