Robert Jenrick
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government | |
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In office 24 July 2019 – 15 September 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | James Brokenshire |
Succeeded by | Michael Gove |
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 9 January 2018 – 24 July 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Andrew Jones |
Succeeded by | Simon Clarke |
Member of Parliament for Newark | |
Assumed office 5 June 2014 | |
Preceded by | Patrick Mercer |
Majority | 21,816 (39.8%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England | 9 January 1982
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Michal Berkner |
Children | 3 |
Education | Wolverhampton Grammar School |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge University of Pennsylvania |
Website | robertjenrick |
Robert Edward Jenrick (born 9 January 1982) is a British politician who served as
Born in Wolverhampton, Jenrick attended St John's College, Cambridge, where he read history, followed by the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied political science. He then studied law and qualified as a solicitor. He was elected for Newark in a 2014 by-election following the resignation of Conservative MP Patrick Mercer after a cash-for-lobbying scandal.
From 2015 to 2018, Jenrick was
Jenrick returned to government under Truss in September 2022 as Minister of State for Health and was appointed to a cabinet attending role as Minister of State for Immigration after the appointment of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister the following month. On 6 December 2023, Jenrick resigned from his position as Minister of State for Immigration over "strong disagreements" with the government's Rwanda asylum plan, arguing that it did not go far enough to tackle illegal immigration.
Early life and non-political career
Jenrick was born in Wolverhampton in 1982. He grew up in Shropshire near the town of Ludlow, as well as in Herefordshire.[1]
Jenrick was privately educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School before reading History at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 2003.[2] He was news editor at student newspaper Varsity in 2001.[3] He obtained a Thouron Award to study Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2004. He subsequently studied Law, gaining a Graduate Diploma in Law from The College of Law in 2005 and completing a legal practice course at BPP Law School in 2006.
Jenrick qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and practised corporate law with Skadden Arps and Sullivan & Cromwell in London and Moscow. Immediately prior to being elected to Parliament in 2014 Jenrick was a director of Christie's, the auction house.[4]
Political career
At the
In November 2013, Jenrick was selected to contest the Parliamentary constituency by-election for
In February 2016, Channel 4 News alleged overspending in Jenrick's 2014 by-election victory.[8] Jenrick said he was confident his election expenses had been compiled in compliance with the law.[9] Nottinghamshire Police took no action as too much time had passed since the alleged offence.[9] In March 2017, the Electoral Commission released a report on their investigation into spending allegations at a number of elections. They concluded that the Conservative Party had contravened the spending rules three times (the 2014 Newark by-election being one of those times) and committed offences twice, and accordingly fined the party £70,000.[10][11]
Shortly after his election in 2014, Jenrick was elected to the
At the snap
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (2019–2021)
After
On 26 July 2019, he said, "I want tackling
At the
His response to the national crisis with regard to housing safety following the
In February 2020, in a survey of leaseholders from 117 housing developments by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, a charity that supports leaseholders, 90 per cent of respondents said the government's response to the "cladding crisis" had been "no help at all".[25] In October 2020, it was estimated that 700,000 people were still trapped in flats wrapped in flammable materials, and 3.6 million had fire-related defects and faced a wait of 10 years before they could sell their flat or get a new mortgage.[26]
In April 2020, The Sunday Times reported Jenrick had charged taxpayers more than £100,000 for "a third home" in his constituency of Newark, that he appeared to use only rarely.[27] In November 2020, the Public Accounts Committee concluded that Jenrick's constituency had been awarded funding by his department as part of a process that was opaque and not impartial.[28] On 15 September 2021, it was announced that Jenrick had been dismissed as Communities Secretary after Boris Johnson had reshuffled his cabinet, and had been succeeded by Michael Gove (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster).[29]
COVID-19 pandemic
In April 2020, after Jenrick repeatedly urged the public at televised press briefings to stay at home during the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Daily Mail claimed on 10 April that he had twice flouted government restrictions after they were announced.[30][31] The first violation was by travelling 150 miles from London to a second home in Herefordshire, Eye Manor, where he was now living with his family, and then by travelling 40 miles to see his parents near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.[32][33] He was accused by Anna Soubry of "selfish arrogance".[34] Jenrick defended the former trip, reiterating he was travelling to his family home, where his family were before any restrictions on travel were announced.[35] He also defended the latter trip, stating his parents had asked him to deliver some essentials, including medicines, and he had not entered the house.[36] This position was supported by the emeritus director of Public Health England.[35]
Previously, on 22 March 2020, he had written an article for The Mail on Sunday arguing that rather than relatives travelling, local communities should help out.[37][38] Jenrick's primary residence was his townhouse in Central London, where his wife worked and his three children attended school. Senior MPs[who?] called for Jenrick to consider his position, given his high-profile role in Downing Street's campaign to keep the British public inside during the outbreak, including the ban on travelling to second homes.[39]
Planning issues
In June 2020, Jenrick faced questions over his links to a Conservative donor after it emerged that he met an Israeli businessman, Idan Ofer, with an interest in the future of a multibillion-pound project that Jenrick, then exchequer secretary to the Treasury, was overseeing. Ofer stated that the £10,000 donation via his Quantum Pacific business was made at the behest of Conservative Friends of Israel, of which Jenrick was a member.[40] Jenrick later said that Ofer was a family friend.[41] The same month, it was reported that Conservative councillors approved a planning application for an extension to Jenrick's townhouse despite officials objecting to the scheme three times over its damaging impact in a conservation area.[42][43]
In March 2019, Jenrick’s predecessor James Brokenshire had decided that a planning application for a new 17-storey tower in Notting Hill which had been rejected three times by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea should be referred to him instead of being dealt with by the Greater London Authority.[44] In June 2020, on the advice of a planning inspector, Jenrick granted permission for the tower. The decision was described by Kensington and Chelsea's lead councillor for planning as a "major blow to local residents", as the development would "cause harm to our unique borough and, in particular, nearby listed buildings and conservation areas". In his decision letter, Jenrick had agreed that the proposals would damage the significance of the area's local heritage, but he found that the effect on the townscape would be "neutral-to-beneficial"[45] and that "the provision of housing attracts very significant weight".[44]
In July 2020,
In January 2021 Jenrick declined South Lakeland MP
Unlawful approval of Westferry housing development
On 14 January 2020, Jenrick approved a £1 billion luxury housing development of 1,500 homes on Westferry Road, Isle of Dogs, proposed by Richard Desmond, a Conservative Party donor and owner of Northern & Shell. A Government planning inspector had advised against permitting the scheme, as it would not deliver enough affordable housing and as the height of the tower would be detrimental to the character of the area.[48]
Jenrick approved the scheme on 14 January knowing that an approval by that date would enable Desmond to avoid having to pay a council-imposed infrastructure levy of between £30 and £50 million, which could have been used for funding schools and health clinics.[49][50] Tower Hamlets London Borough Council then pursued a judicial review against Jenrick’s decision in the High Court, arguing that it had shown bias towards Desmond. It was also reported that Jenrick had helped Desmond to save an additional £106m by allowing affordable housing at 21%, instead of enforcing the local and London-wide planning policy requirement of 35%.[51][52] This could have resulted in a total discount (and subsequent loss of revenue to the Exchequer) of approximately £150 million.[52]
In May 2020, Jenrick did not contest the judicial review, conceding that his sign-off of the scheme was "unlawful by reason of apparent bias". He also confirmed that his approval had deliberately been issued before the new CIL policy could be adopted. This meant that Jenrick was able to avoid disclosing correspondence relating to the application in open court. His planning permission was quashed by the High Court, which ordered that the matter was to be decided by a different minister.[53] Jenrick maintained that although the decision had been "unlawful by reason of apparent bias", there had been no "actual bias".[54] Desmond, whose company had donated to the Conservative Party in 2017,[49] made a further personal donation to the party shortly after the approval was given. Andrew Wood, the leader of the Conservative group on Tower Hamlets Council, resigned because of his concerns over the property deal.[55] The planning decision will now[when?] be re-determined by a different Government minister. In conceding the move did show "apparent bias", Jenrick effectively blocked the judicial review, which originally prevented documents between his department and the developer from being made public.[53]
In June 2020, Desmond told
In August 2020, members of Grenfell United refused an invitation to have a meeting with Jenrick due to the slow progress of enforcing the findings of the first phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, a lack of progress on reforming social housing and his controversy with Desmond. In a letter, the group told him: "Your perceived focus on the interests of property developers over the needs of an impoverished local community has soured our opinion of you. It tells us you have learned nothing from your previous interactions and conversations with Grenfell United committee members who lost so much on the night of the fire. Bereaved families and survivors sat with you and opened their hearts, and your actions have thrown this trust back in our faces."[60]
Holocaust memorial
In June 2020, Jenrick was described by Baroness Deech as breaching "the guidance on planning propriety" over his management of a planning application to build a national Holocaust memorial, which she described as controversial. The MHCLG, Jenrick's department, took control of the approval process from Westminster Council days after he met the project's main backers, including Gerald Ronson.[61][62] The planning application was called in by Jenrick in November 2019; this was hours before Parliament was dissolved, and three months before Westminster Council unanimously rejected the scheme. The application was submitted in 2018 by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, an organisation sponsored by the MHCLG.[63]
In July 2020, Jenrick faced High Court action brought by the
Ministerial career (2022–2023)
Following the election of
In March 2023, Jenrick said that
In April 2023, the UK government announced that it had leased a barge to house 500 migrants on its southern coast as part of efforts to reduce the use of costly hotels as temporary accommodation while asylum claims were being processed.[75] Jenrick defended the policy, stating that it was necessary in order "to save the British taxpayer money and to prevent the UK becoming a magnet for asylum shoppers in Europe."[75][76] The Bibby Stockholm, which is to be operational for at least 18 months, is to provide basic accommodation and healthcare, catering facilities and round-the-clock security.[77]
Defending the Conservative government's
Jenrick was criticised in July 2023 by Sir Robert Chote, chairman of the British government's official Statistics Authority, for misleading parliament regarding modern slavery.[81] Jenrick incorrectly told the House of Commons that "71 per cent of foreign national offenders in the detained estate, whom we are trying to remove from the country, are claiming to be modern slaves." Chote said that the Home Office's own report on the issue shows that around one fifth of foreign offenders convicted in the UK had been referred for modern slavery support, not the 71 per cent that Jenrick claimed.[81]
In July 2023, it was reported that Jenrick told staff at an asylum reception centre designed for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent to paint over wall art depicting cartoons and animals such as Baloo from The Jungle Book and Mickey Mouse in order to provide a less welcoming atmosphere for children.[82][83] The Home Office later confirmed that the cartoons had been painted over on 5 July.[84][85] Jenrick said the cartoons were painted over as they were not "age appropriate" for teenagers in the asylum centre.[86]
On 6 December 2023, Jenrick resigned from his position over "strong disagreements" with the government's response to problems with the Rwanda asylum plan,[87] stating that the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill "does not go far enough".[88][89][90]
Political views
Jenrick is a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel parliamentary group.[91][92] In July 2019, he spoke of his visit to Auschwitz concentration camp, "It had a huge impact on me and in particular because my wife is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from modern day Poland and Ukraine."[18] Jenrick has said his connection to the Jewish community forms "a very important and integral part of my life".[18]
Jenrick supports designating Albania as a safe country for the purposes of asylum claims after there was an increase in Albanian nationals crossing the English channel, describing the country as demonstrably safe but he also described current levels of migration into the United Kingdom as unsustainable, with illegal migration likely to become an issue for many years to come.[93]
Personal life
Jenrick is married to Michal Berkner. She is nine years older than Jenrick,[94] and is the grandchild of Holocaust survivors.[95][96] She is an Israeli-born and US-educated corporate lawyer who practises mainly in London. Together, they have three daughters, whom they are bringing up in the Jewish faith.[1][97][19]
Jenrick owns three homes, including two in London, one of which is a £2.5m townhouse less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament. He also owns
In April 2023, Jenrick was disqualified from driving for six months and fined £1,639 after travelling at 68 miles per hour (109 km/h) in a 40 mph (64 km/h) speed limit zone on the M1 in August 2022. Jenrick said he accepted the court's decision and that he did not see a variable speed limit which had been applied on the motorway. It was reported that Jenrick had previously been fined £307 and given three penalty points in March for speeding on the A40 in west London in August 2021.[102]
Honours
Jenrick received "
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