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It didnt take long for the Im A Celeb campmates to confront the MP about why he chose to go on the show. MENU MENU. The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group warned that Hancocks actions could undermine adherence to coronavirus restrictions, similar to the Dominic Cummings scandal. In a world exclusive, The Sun revealed that Matt Hancock had been having a secret affair with his closest aide, Gina Coladangelo. [15] He served on this committee until November 2012. Hancock entered the field of politics in 2005 as the chief of staff to George Osborne, the shadow chancellor at the time. It's painful", "The Lockdown Files: Matt Hancock rejected expert advice on care home testing, WhatsApp messages reveal", Matt Hancock disputes claim he rejected care home Covid advice, "Matt Hancock: what do the leaked WhatsApp messages reveal? In June 2021, after it was shown he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions by kissing and embracing an aide, Gina Coladangelo, in his Whitehall office, Hancock resigned as Health Secretary and was succeeded by Sajid Javid. ", "Young minister has the skills to climb to the top in Westminster", "Exclusive Interview with Matt Hancock: Dyslexia and Me", "The government's contact-tracing app delay is another IT disaster", "Matt Hancock interview: 'Voters want the centre, not the extremes', "Profile: Matt Hancock, the Osborne acolyte who managed to survive and prosper", "Election 2010: Constituency: Suffolk West", "Members of the 2010 intake dominate the Conservative membership of Select Committees Tory MPs", "Hancock's half-hour: Tory minister accused of 'dishonesty' about missed TV appearance", "Who is Matt Hancock? As of 2023, Matt Hancock's net worth is $100,000 - $1M. Boris Johnson became PM shortly after and Hancock retained his position as Health Secretary. [150][151], Hancock told The Guardian in 2018 that he has dyslexia, something that he said first became apparent two decades earlier while he was studying at Oxford. In October 2013, Matt Hancock joined the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise. In April 2021, it was revealed that he had been given 20% of shares in Topwood Limited, a firm based in Wrexham which is owned by his sister and other close family members. Matt Hancock was born on 2 October 1978 in Chester, Cheshire, he is 42 years old. [5] Hancock supports Newcastle United, and auctioned his "pride and joy" signed team shirt to raise money for the NHS in May 2020. He proposed a televised debate with other candidates. [118], Oakeshott leaked some of the private WhatsApp messages she had access to in a Daily Telegraph article published in February 2023. [62] This change was challenged by the UK Statistics Authority[63] and labelled a "Potemkin testing regime". [21] Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, he rejected the suggestion that fracking was highly unpopular but he was unable to name any village that backed it. In April 2019, Hancock, who had previously said the NHS would face "no privatization on my watch", was criticized by Labour for allowing 21 NHS contracts worth 127 million to be tendered. After Theresa May became Prime Minister in 2016, Hancock was demoted to Minister of State for Digital and Culture. His net worth as of 2022 is estimated to be around 5million. According to Cummings, tens of thousands of people died who didnt need to die during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to what he claimed to be criminal, disgraceful behaviour within Downing Street under the supervision of Hancock. [27] He headed David Cameron's "earn or learn" taskforce which aimed to have every young person earning or learning from April 2017. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. The publication also claimed that Hancock's net worth was estimated to be . He is known as the Conservative MP for West Suffolk, and has . Matthew John David Hancock is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2018. However, this dream was short-lived and after finishing sixth in the first round of voting, he withdrew from the race. This article is about the British politician. There was never a camera in my office when I was Health Secretary or in any of the other five Cabinet positions. It was reported that the CCTV footage was leaked by a DHSC employee who opposed the governments lockdown restrictions, and on 27 June it was confirmed that an internal investigation was undertaken by the department to find the culprit, for fear of future CCTV footage being leaked to states hostile to the UK, for the purposes of blackmail. Matt Hancock Net Worth. Babylon allegedly sponsored the newspaper article. On 27 March 2020, along with Boris Johnson, Hancock himself tested positive for COVID-19. He announced that jobless 18- to 21-year-olds would be required to do work experience as well as looking for jobs, or face losing their benefits. Hancock apologized for the things that have gone wrong in her care and said her case, in particular, was incredibly difficult and complex, calling Bethanys case heart-rending and saying that he had insisted on a case review of every single person in those conditions.. There has been no suggestion that Hancock intervened in the normal processes, and in April 2021 the company had not earned anything through the framework. A ruling released by the High Court stated: There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices (CANs) within 30 days of the award of contracts. The details were published within 47 days. Hancock told The Guardian in 2018 that he has dyslexia, something that he said first became apparent two decades earlier while he was studying at Oxford. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and later chief of staff to George Osborne. ", "Boris Johnson backs Matt Hancock after claims he lied", "Matt Hancock apologises after photos show him kissing aide", "Matt Hancock gave key Covid role to lobbyist pal", "Who is Gina Coladangelo? He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after the first ballot. 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(British TV series) participants, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Wikipedia temporarily semi-protected biographies of living people, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from December 2022, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from June 2021, Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from November 2022, All Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 15:39. [108], During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hancock welcomed seven Ukrainian refugees into his family home in Suffolk in May 2022 through the Homes for Ukraine scheme.[109][110]. [79] Lord Geidt later produced a report on ministerial interests saying that the awarding of the contract to Topwood could be seen to "represent a conflict of interest" that should have been declared. An activist who was due to appear with Hancock expressed surprise that a minister whose Government berates shirkers couldnt be bothered to get out of bed to defend his own policy. The governments guidelines allowed intimate contact with people from different households only from 17 May. In a September 2019 Channel 4 News interview, Hancock was asked to respond to allegations that at a private lunch in 1999 Boris Johnson had groped the leg of journalist Charlotte Edwardes under a table. His profession as a politician is his primary source of income. [111] The book is critical of Dominic Cummings. In June 2021, following an affair with his political aide and mistress Gina Coladangelo, sources reported that he had left his wife for Coladangelo. [8][12], Hancock was selected as the Conservative candidate for West Suffolk in January 2010. [22][25], Hancock became Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General on 11 May 2015. He attended David Camerons cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2015 to 2016. [59][60][61], In April 2020, Hancock was criticised when it emerged that the target he had set for 100,000 daily COVID-19 tests had been met only by changing the method of counting, to include up to 40,000 home test kits which had been sent, but not yet completed. [47], Hancock continued in his role as Health Secretary in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet. [83] Following his testimony, YouGov noted that more people in the general public thought Hancock should resign than stay in his post, despite questions over the accuracy of Cummings's statements. Following his resignation as Health Secretary, Hancock returned to the backbenches. [94], Former Cabinet ministers Alan Johnson and Rory Stewart both said there had never been cameras in their offices during their time in Government, with Johnson saying: "I could never understand why there was a camera in the Secretary of State's office. Hancock lives in his constituency, and also has a flat in London. Chief Whip Simon Hart MPsaid: "Following a conversation withMatt Hancock, I have considered the situation and believe this is a matter serious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with immediate effect. His spokesman said that a donation would be made to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia. On 25 June 2021, it was revealed that Matt Hancock had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions with Gina Coladangelo, an adviser in the Department of Health and Social Care with whom he was having an extramarital affair, after CCTV images of him kissing and embracing her in his Whitehall office on 6 May were published in The Sun newspaper. Martha Hancock was born in June 1977 in the United Kingdom, she is 44 years old. He endorsed Boris Johnson for Conservative Party leadership in 2019 following Theresa May's resignation as England's Prime Minister. Website. During this campaign, Hancock opposed the prorogation of Parliament to deliver Brexit and called on his fellow leadership candidates to join him on 6 June 2019. [112][113] The book was to be released in December 2022. [137][138], Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone stated her office had received "dozens of complaints" about Hancock being on the television show. [9] He was diagnosed with dyslexia at university. In 2005, he became an economic adviser to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, later becoming Osbornes chief of staff. In March, he declared he had acquired . However, Hancock trained as a jockey in 2012 and won a horse race in his constituency town of Newmarket. - here's everything you need to know. Hancock forbids his children to use social media. On 8 January 2018, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in Theresa Mays 2018 cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Karen Bradley. Hancock oversaw efforts to procure personal protective equipment, but its absence of a competitive tendering process proved controversial. In November 2022, Hancock hit headlines once again when it was announced that the MP would be one of this year's contestants on the ITV reality TV show, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here- a decision that led to his suspension from the Conservative party. As Digital Minister he announced people would have more control over their personal data and be better protected in the digital age. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. [139] Ofcom received just under 2,000 complaints about the show in its first week. [70][71][72] Eight days later, the Daily Mirror published a photograph of him riding in his chauffeur-driven car without wearing a mask. He narrowly won the contest, defeating Natalie Elphicke (a solicitor who later became MP for Dover), by 88 votes to 81 in the final ballot. Matt Hancock net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Net Worth 2020, Salary. [141], Hancock married Martha Hoyer Millar, an osteopath, in 2006. In June, Hancock was elected to the Public Accounts Committee, the select committee responsible for overseeing government expenditures to ensure they are effective and honest. Hancock said the government was considering some quite significant actions that would have social and economic disruption. On 15 August 2020, The Daily Telegraph reported that Hancock was to merge Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace into a new body called the National Institute for Health Protection, modelled on the Robert Koch Institute. [120] A spokesman for Hancock said, "These stolen messages have been doctored to create a false story that Matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing". The book was not based on a diary but was written after the fact based on Hancock's recollections as well his records of communications. However, this is set to increase after his stint in the jungle. [42], In April 2019, Hancock, who had previously said the NHS would face "no privatisation on my watch", was criticised by Labour for allowing 21 NHS contracts worth 127million to be tendered. He withdrew from the race on 14 June, shortly after the first ballot. Hancock supports Newcastle United and auctioned his pride and joy signed team shirt to raise money for the NHS in May 2020. As the pressure mounted up, Matt Hancock resigned from his position just a day later on June, 26 2021. Hancock served as a junior minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from September 2013 to May 2015 and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. Hancock became a member of the Conservative Party in 1999. He studied for a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge. On 25 May 2019, he announced his intention to stand in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. On 25 May 2019, Hancock announced his intention to stand in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. For other inquiries, Contact Us. The ministerial code includes that ministers should not "normally accept invitations to act as patrons of, or otherwise offer support to, pressure groups or organisations dependent in whole or in part on Government funding". [38] Hancock said his app collects data once consent has been granted by the user. A ruling released by the High Court stated: "There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices (CANs) within 30 days of the award of contracts." Personal Real Estate : In 2019 Matt paid $7.2 million for a mansion in LA's Hancock Park neighborhood. In his resignation statement, the former Health Secretary said he needed to spend more time with his children, but it didnt contain an apology to his wife. However, this is set to increase after his stint in the jungle . [55] After the Government gave strict social distancing advice which was defied by large numbers of people, Hancock took a stronger line than the prime minister on condemning those still socialising in groups and derided them as being "very selfish". Since 2018, he is serving as a British politician as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He announced that jobless 18- to 21-year-olds would be required to do work experience as well as looking for jobs, or face losing their benefits. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022. 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