More government appointments for East Anglian MPs

More Conservative MPs from the Anglia region have been given new government positions in the new government.

North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt has become a Health Minister. Mr Burt was a Foreign Office minister from 2010 until 2013 and now returns to the government frontbench.

The MP for South Holland and the Deepings, John Hayes, is moved from the Department for Transport to become the Security Minister in the Home Office. Mr Hayes has been a minister since 2010. He was first elected an MP in South Lincolnshire in 1997.

The Rayleigh and Wickford MP Mark Francois is moved from being the Armed Forces Minister to the Department for Communities and Local Government. Before the Conservatives came to power, Mr Francois was the Shadow Europe Minister from 2007 until 2010. He was elected an Essex MP in 2001.

Andrea Leadsom has been promoted from a junior Treasury post to become an Energy and Climate Change Minister. Mrs Leadsom has been a vocal critic of the HS2 rail project which is due to run through part of her South Northamptonshire constituency.

The MP for Grantham and Stamford, Nick Boles remains in his post as a joint Education and Business minister with additional responsibility for trade union & employment law.

Therese Coffey, the Suffolk Coastal MP, has been given her first government job as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.