Stuart Andrew

Stuart James Andrew (born 25 November 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from July 2025 to August 2026. He has also been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry in Northamptonshire since 2024. He was previously MP for Pudsey in West Yorkshire from 2010 until the constituency was abolished before the July 2024 election. Andrew was born in Anglesey, Wales. He was a councillor on Wrexham County Borough Council from 1995 to 1999. Elected as a Conservative, he defected to the Labour Party in 1998 before rejoining the Conservative Party in 2000. He was a councillor on Leeds City Council from 2003 to 2010. He was elected for Pudsey at the 2010 general election. He was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State under Theresa May. He served in four positions under Boris Johnson, as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 2019 to 2020; Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons from 2020 to 2022; Minister of State for Housing from February to July 2022, and Minister of State for Prisons and Probation from July to September 2022. He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society in September 2022 by Liz Truss. He was retained in the position and was also appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities by Rishi Sunak in October 2022.