24 Facts About Amanda Solloway

Amanda Jane Solloway is a British politician who served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September 2022 to July 2024 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Affordability and Skills from February 2023 to July 2024.

Amanda Solloway was educated at Bramcote Hills Grammar School in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, which became comprehensive in 1978.

Amanda Solloway started working at the age of 16 behind the counter of an off-licence before working as a management trainee at Sainsbury's supermarket where she stayed for 13 years.

Amanda Solloway then spent 15 years in human resources at charities Help the Aged and Save the Children, and in the private sector at Baird Clothing Group.

Amanda Solloway was first elected at the 2015 general election for the Derby North constituency, with a majority of 41 votes, unseating the Labour MP Chris Williamson, who had been the MP for the seat since 2010.

Amanda Solloway became a parliamentary private secretary to the minister of state for the Department of International Development.

Amanda Solloway campaigned for improving provision for mental health and homelessness in Derby North and in Parliament.

Amanda Solloway lost her seat at the 2017 general election to Williamson, on a night where Labour made gains across the United Kingdom.

Amanda Solloway continued to be active in Derby North, including in the 2018 Derby City Council election and 2019 Derby City Council election, where the Conservatives made gains in the Derby North constituency wards.

Amanda Solloway regained Derby North for the Conservatives at the 2019 general election with a majority of 2,540, with Williamson in sixth place.

Amanda Solloway organised the formation of the "Team Derby" campaign, composed of other local MPs and Derby City Council, and facilitated meetings between "Team Derby", administrators Quantuma, the then Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston and the EFL on multiple occasions.

Amanda Solloway has credited helping to save the club from administration as her "single most important thing" she did while the MP for Derby North.

From May to July 2022, Amanda Solloway has campaigned on behalf of constituents in Darley Abbey, following the closure of the Darley Abbey Bridge, for the installation of a temporary replacement.

Between July 5,2022 and the 21st of March 2023, Amanda Solloway successfully campaigned for Derby to be chosen as the location for the Department for Transport's Great British Railways Headquarters.

Amanda Solloway's efforts included asking constituents to vote for Derby by scanning a QR code printed on a T-shirt she wore at constituency events and by holding meetings with the Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper and Minister of State for Rail and HS2 Huw Merriman.

Over this period Amanda Solloway routinely met with the Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper who stated Amanda Solloway "deserved a lot of credit for her absolutely tenacious campaigning" for a solution for Alstom's production gap.

On 14 February 2020, Amanda Solloway was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science, Research and Innovation at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy during the first cabinet reshuffle of the second Johnson ministry.

On 17 September 2021, Amanda Solloway was appointed a lord commissioner of the Treasury during the second cabinet reshuffle of the second Johnson ministry.

Amanda Solloway then served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from July to September 2022.

Amanda Solloway was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science, Research and Innovation from February 2020 to September 2021.

Amanda Solloway was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 7 February 2023.

Amanda Solloway oversaw the Government's response to significant increases in energy prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Amanda Solloway ran the London Marathon, in 2016 and 2017, and, in doing so, raised money for the hospital's baby unit.

Amanda Solloway is a Trustee at the Landau Forte Charitable Trust which runs 6 school academies across the Midlands.