Ben Gummer
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The Right Honourable Ben Gummer MP |
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Minister for the Cabinet Office Paymaster General |
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Assumed office 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Matt Hancock |
| Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Health Services | |
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In office 12 May 2015 – 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Dan Poulter |
| Succeeded by | Nicola Blackwood |
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education | |
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In office 7 October 2013 – 12 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Gavin Barwell |
| Succeeded by | Robin Walker |
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Member of Parliament for Ipswich |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Chris Mole |
| Majority | 3,733 (7.7%) |
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19 February 1978 London, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
| Website | Official website |
Benedict Michael "Ben" GummerPC MP (born 19 February 1978) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich. He is currently the youngest minister attending Cabinet meetings.
Gummer is the eldest child of former Conservative Cabinet Minister John Gummer, Baron Deben, and Penelope Jane (née Gardner). John Gummer was MP for Suffolk Coastal until the 2010 general election, when he moved to the House of Lords. Gummer attended St Saviour's Church of England Primary School in Ealing, west London. Between 1987 and 1991 he was a chorister at St John's College School, Cambridge, where he sang under George Guest and Christopher Robinson. Gummer was a music scholar at Tonbridge School in Kent. Having won the Vellacott Historical Essay Prize he took a starred double first in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner and scholar.
After graduating, Gummer became director of ICWL, a small engineering firm handling water-cooled refrigerators, and between 2005 and 2010 was Managing Director of family-owned Sancroft International, an environmental consultancy company set up and led by his father John Gummer; in his five-year tenure the company's size more than doubled.
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