Johnathan Hill MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools

Responsibilities

  • Academies
  • Free schools
  • UTCs
  • Studio schools
  • YPLA/EFA
  • School funding and capital
  • 16 - 18 funding, capital and financial support
  • Sixth form performance and improvement
  • School governance
  • School improvement
  • School organisation
  • Extremism
  • Sustainability
  • FOI
  • VfM
  • Corporate issues

Biography

Born in 1960, Lord Hill is married with three children and lives near Salisbury. He was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history.

Before working in the private sector, he was an adviser in Whitehall in the 1980s and 1990s. He worked at three government departments – Employment, Trade and Industry, and Health, before joining the Number 10 Policy Unit in 1991. He was Political Secretary and Head of the Prime Minister’s Political Office from 1992 to 1994.

Lord Hill was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools in May 2010.