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David Willetts

The Right Honourable
The Lord Willetts
PC
Rt Hon David Willetts MP.jpg
Minister of State for Universities and Science
In office
11 May 2010 – 14 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by The Lord Drayson (Science and Innovation)
David Lammy (Innovation, Universities and Skills)
Succeeded by Greg Clark (Universities, Science and Cities)
Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills
Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (2007–2009)
In office
2 July 2007 – 11 May 2010
Leader David Cameron
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Position abolished
Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills
In office
8 December 2005 – 2 July 2007
Leader David Cameron
Preceded by David Cameron
Succeeded by Michael Gove (Children, Schools and Families)
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
In office
6 May 2005 – 8 December 2005
Leader Michael Howard
Preceded by James Arbuthnot (Trade)
Stephen O'Brien (Industry)
Succeeded by Alan Duncan
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Social Security (1999–2001)
In office
15 June 1999 – 6 May 2005
Leader William Hague
Iain Duncan Smith
Michael Howard
Preceded by Iain Duncan Smith
Succeeded by Malcolm Rifkind
Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment
In office
1 June 1998 – 15 June 1999
Leader William Hague
Preceded by Stephen Dorrell
Succeeded by Theresa May
Paymaster General
In office
20 July 1996 – 21 November 1996
Leader John Major
Preceded by David Heathcoat-Amory
Succeeded by Michael Bates
Member of Parliament for Havant
In office
9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by Ian Lloyd
Succeeded by Alan Mak
Personal details
Born David Linsay Willetts
(1956-03-09) 9 March 1956 (age 60)
Birmingham, England, UK
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Sarah Butterfield
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford

David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, PC (born 9 March 1956) is an English Conservative Party politician and Visiting Professor at King's College London. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He was the Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until July 2014. Willetts became a member of the House of Lords in 2015.

Willetts was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Willetts graduated with a first class degree.

Having served as Nigel Lawson's private researcher, Willetts took charge of the Treasury monetary policy division at 26 before moving over to Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit at 28. Aged 31, he subsequently took over the Centre for Policy Studies.

Paul Foot wrote in the Private Eye that in a 1993 document called The Opportunities for Private Funding in the NHS, published by the Social Market Foundation and financed by private healthcare company BUPA, Willetts provided the "intellectual thrust" for private finance initiatives (PFIs) in the National Health Service.


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