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Nigel Huddleston was head of travel at Google before becoming an MP
Boris makes ex-travel chief tourism minister
Nigel Huddleston appointed in major government reshuffle. Ian Taylor reports Huddleston was head of travel at
Former travel executive Nigel Huddleston was confirmed as tourism minister on Monday amid a wholesale government reshuffle. Huddleston was appointed
parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and confirmed as minister for tourism and heritage as well as minister for sport, the Commonwealth Games, gambling and lotteries. He will serve under Oliver
Dowden, the new secretary of state at the DCMS, who replaced Baroness Morgan in the reshuffle.
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Google before entering parliament as MP for Mid Worcestershire in 2015. He said: “I’ve been involved in
DCMS-related matters since I was first elected, and in my work before entering Parliament.” The reshuffle also involved changes
at the top of two other departments with responsibilities for travel – the Treasury and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The resignation of Sajid Javid and
his replacement as chancellor by Rishi Sunak means the pre-Budget review of Air Passenger Duty (APD) will be
in new hands. Sunak was joined at the Treasury by an almost entirely new team of under-secretaries and ministers, although former tourism minister John Glen remains at the Treasury as minister for the City of London. The Budget is due on March 11. A
review of domestic APD was promised as part of a government deal to rescue Flybe from insolvency agreed in January with parent consortium Connect Airways, which includes Virgin Atlantic. Business secretary Andrea
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