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Lucy Neville-Rolfe
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG (born 2 January 1953) is a British businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from September 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she served in ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak. In December 2021, she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.
Born in Wiltshire, Neville-Rolfe worked as a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1973 to 1992, and at the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street from 1992 to 1994. She then worked at Tesco (1997–2013), serving on the board of directors from 2006.
Neville-Rolfe was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in 2013. She served in the first government of Theresa May as Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from July to December 2016 and as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017. She became chair of Assured Food Standards in November 2017, stepping down in 2020.
Neville-Rolfe was born at Wardour, Wiltshire, to the agricultural economist and artist Edmund Neville-Rolfe and Margaret Elizabeth (née Evans). She grew up on a farm at Wardour with her parents and four siblings. She attended Catholic convent schools before studying philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford. She graduated with a BA, which was later promoted to an MA. She is an Honorary Fellow of the College.
After leaving university, Neville-Rolfe worked in the Civil Service. She worked at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1973 to 1992. During John Major's tenure as Prime Minister, she was a Member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1992 to 1994 and the director of the Deregulation Unit in the Cabinet Office from 1995 to 1997.
After the Conservatives were defeated in the 1997 election, Neville-Rolfe left politics and took up a position at Tesco and served as group director of corporate affairs from 1997 to 2006. She served as company secretary from 2004 to 2006. She served on the board from 2006 as executive director (corporate and legal affairs) until she retired in January 2013. While at Tesco the company moved from its core UK grocery roots into non-food services – and 13 overseas markets across the world.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1087/15) with Neville-Rolfe in 2005–2008 for its Tesco: An Oral History collection held by the British Library.
Neville-Rolfe joined the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer in October 2013 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property from July 2014 until July 2016. From May 2015 she was also Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Neville-Rolfe was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 17 July 2016.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG (born 2 January 1953) is a British businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from September 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she served in ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak. In December 2021, she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.
Born in Wiltshire, Neville-Rolfe worked as a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1973 to 1992, and at the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street from 1992 to 1994. She then worked at Tesco (1997–2013), serving on the board of directors from 2006.
Neville-Rolfe was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in 2013. She served in the first government of Theresa May as Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from July to December 2016 and as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017. She became chair of Assured Food Standards in November 2017, stepping down in 2020.
Neville-Rolfe was born at Wardour, Wiltshire, to the agricultural economist and artist Edmund Neville-Rolfe and Margaret Elizabeth (née Evans). She grew up on a farm at Wardour with her parents and four siblings. She attended Catholic convent schools before studying philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford. She graduated with a BA, which was later promoted to an MA. She is an Honorary Fellow of the College.
After leaving university, Neville-Rolfe worked in the Civil Service. She worked at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1973 to 1992. During John Major's tenure as Prime Minister, she was a Member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1992 to 1994 and the director of the Deregulation Unit in the Cabinet Office from 1995 to 1997.
After the Conservatives were defeated in the 1997 election, Neville-Rolfe left politics and took up a position at Tesco and served as group director of corporate affairs from 1997 to 2006. She served as company secretary from 2004 to 2006. She served on the board from 2006 as executive director (corporate and legal affairs) until she retired in January 2013. While at Tesco the company moved from its core UK grocery roots into non-food services – and 13 overseas markets across the world.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1087/15) with Neville-Rolfe in 2005–2008 for its Tesco: An Oral History collection held by the British Library.
Neville-Rolfe joined the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer in October 2013 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property from July 2014 until July 2016. From May 2015 she was also Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Neville-Rolfe was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 17 July 2016.
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