33 Facts About Jonathan Djanogly

Jonathan Simon Djanogly was born on 3 June 1965 and is an English politician, solicitor, and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Huntingdon since 2001.

Jonathan Djanogly currently serves as a member of the Public Accounts Committee.

Jonathan Djanogly was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in North London, followed by Oxford Polytechnic in Oxford, where he was elected chairman of the Conservative Association in 1987, and he earned a Bachelor of Arts in law and politics in 1987.

Jonathan Djanogly took his law finals at the College of Law, Guildford, in 1988.

Jonathan Djanogly joined SJ Berwin, London, in 1988 as a trainee solicitor, was admitted as a solicitor in 1990, and served as corporate finance partner between 1998 and 2009.

Jonathan Djanogly was elected as a councillor for Regents Park ward in the City of Westminster in 1994 and was re-elected in 1998.

Jonathan Djanogly unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour parliamentary seat of Oxford East at the 1997 general election where he was defeated by the sitting Labour MP Andrew Smith by 16,665 votes.

Jonathan Djanogly resigned from his council seat early in 2001, shortly before the general election campaign.

At the 2001 general election, Jonathan Djanogly held the Huntingdon seat comfortably with a majority of 12,792 votes and has remained as the MP for the constituency ever since.

Jonathan Djanogly made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 2 July 2001.

Jonathan Djanogly held the Huntingdon seat again in 2005 and 2010 with majorities of 12,847 and 10,819 respectively and in 2015 and 2017 on the same boundaries with majorities of 19,404 and 14,475 respectively.

Jonathan Djanogly served on the Trade and Industry Select committee from 2001.

Jonathan Djanogly campaigned for better protection against animal rights extremists, who had been targeting employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences in his constituency.

In 2005 Jonathan Djanogly was appointed a shadow Business Minister in the team shadowing the Department of Trade and Industry where until the 2010 general election he worked on corporate governance and business regulations.

Since leaving Government in 2012, Jonathan Djanogly has been elected Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Governance and Joint Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Responsibility.

In December 2017 Jonathan Djanogly voted along with ten other Conservative MPs against the government, and in favour of guaranteeing Parliament a "meaningful vote" on any deal Theresa May agreed with Brussels over Brexit.

In 2019 Jonathan Djanogly was ranked as 645th out of 650 MPs for "openness and responsiveness" by the petitions platform change.

Jonathan Djanogly's role included the oversight of legal aid and legal services, HM Courts Service, as well as the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Jonathan Djanogly led the Bill process and it became law on 1 May 2012.

In October 2011, Jonathan Djanogly announced non-lawyers would be allowed to invest in and own legal businesses for the first time.

In February 2012, Jonathan Djanogly proposed a major legal overhaul of the bailiff industry to clamp down on bad practices.

In July 2012, Jonathan Djanogly announced the Government's intention to introduce a certificate declaring someone as 'presumed dead' to help families resolve the affairs of a missing person.

In July 2012 Jonathan Djanogly revealed plans to tailor employment tribunal fees to encourage businesses and workers to mediate or settle a dispute rather than go to a full hearing from summer 2013.

Jonathan Djanogly was the Minister responsible for the courts service during the August riots of 2011 when a decision was taken to direct the riot cases to a limited number of magistrates courts sitting 24 hours a day for seven days a week.

Jonathan Djanogly was responsible for the merger of HM Courts Service with the Tribunals Service to create HMCTS on 1 April 2011.

In May 2012 Jonathan Djanogly was one of the ministers who introduced the Defamation Bill and he led on its progress through the House of Commons until it reached Report stage.

In October 2011 Jonathan Djanogly was stripped of his role of regulating Claims Management firms after it was revealed he failed to disclose conflicts of interest regarding his family members holding shares in said companies.

Jonathan Djanogly requested that the Claims Management Regulation Unit be overseen by a different Justice Minister, to avoid any possible distraction from this important issue after it was suggested that he and his family could personally profit.

Jonathan Djanogly stated that neither he nor his Labour predecessor had ever had to make a decision in relation to the claims management unit, because decisions were delegated to officials, but it seemed prudent to head off any future allegation.

Claims management regulation policy however remained within his brief and on 22 August 2012, Jonathan Djanogly launched a consultation to amend the conduct rules of claims managers and on 28 August 2012 announced that from 2013, the legal ombudsman would handle claims management complaints.

Jonathan Djanogly denied this, and when accused of lying suggested that her intervention was related to her Labour Party activism.

Jonathan Djanogly has been married to Rebecca Jane Silk since 1991 and has two children, a son and a daughter.

Jonathan Djanogly is the son-in-law of former Wimbledon champion Angela Buxton.