Nottinghamshire MP Robert Jenrick says he is "honoured" to have been appointed as a health minister in new Prime Minister Liz Truss' administration. Mr Jenrick, who represents Newark for the Conservatives, will be working under health secretary Therese Coffey.
Mr Jenrick's appointment was announced earlier this month. In a statement today (Tuesday, September 20) he said: "I was honoured to be asked by the new Prime Minister to serve as Minister for Health, with responsibility for the NHS.
"There is no more important and admired public service than our NHS, which has cared tenderly for me and my family in good times and bad (including the wonderful care my father received only this summer at Telford Hospital) and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to give back to it."
