Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Horsham
What position did Francis Maude take from May 2005 to May 2015?
Francis Maude Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude , Baron Maude of Horsham ( born 4 July 1953 ) is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2015 to 2016 , having previously served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2010 to 2015 . A member of the Conservative Party , he was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Horsham from 1997 to 2015 . Having served over 25 years on the frontbench in the House of Commons , he now runs his own consultancy . Early life . Maude is the son of Angus Maude ( 1912–1993 ) , a life peer and one-time Conservative cabinet minister . He spent part of his childhood in Sydney , Australia , while his father edited the Sydney Morning Herald . On the familys return to the UK , he was educated at Abingdon School , at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , and at the College of Law . He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1977 , and practised criminal law . He served as a member of Westminster City Council from 1978 to 1984 . Political career . In government , 1983–1992 . Maude was first elected to the House of Commons to represent the constituency of North Warwickshire in the Conservative Partys landslide victory at the 1983 general election . In 1984 , he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Employment Peter Morrison . Maude then became an assistant government whip ( 1985–87 ) and Minister for Corporate and Consumer Affairs ( 1987–89 ) , then part of the DTI . A Thatcherite , Maude was appointed in 1989 the Minister for Europe in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to spearhead the policy outlined in the Bruges Speech , attacking the Delors Plan in order to exclude Britain from an economic and political Union of Europe . In 1992 he acted as deputy for Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont and was one of the two UK signatories to the Maastricht Treaty . Maude was one of the first men in grey suits to hold discussions with Margaret Thatcher in November 1990 after she failed to win the first round of a leadership election . He told Thatcher that he would support her as long as she went on , but he did not believe she could win the leadership contest . After John Major became Prime Minister , Maude was made the Financial Secretary to the Treasury . However , in the 1992 general election he lost his seat to the Labour Party candidate , Mike OBrien , and was thus forced to vacate his ministerial roles . According to Daniel Finkelstein of The Times the loss came as a terrible blow to Maude ; all his peers had managed to cling on and were together forming a government . In the Dissolution Honours that year , he was made a member of the Privy Council . In a 2006 interview , Maude stated that the introduction of Section 28 legislation whilst he was in Government ( which banned Councils from promoting homosexuality and led to the closure of gay support groups ) was a mistake , adding it might have even contributed to the AIDS death of his brother Charles , who was homosexual , among others . In 2012 he expanded further on his views on Section 28 , saying in hindsight , it was very wrong — very wrong . It was a legislative provision that came out of honourable motives . It took me some time to realise what an emblem of intolerance Section 28 had become for gay people . It was the tip of a deep iceberg — the iceberg below the surface being a host of anti-gay social attitudes . Out of Parliament , 1992–1997 . Out of Parliament after the 1992 general election , Maude began a series of business roles . He worked in banking as managing director at Morgan Stanley from 1993 to 1997 . He was also appointed a non-executive director of ASDA Group Plc in July 1992 , and served as a director of Salomon Brothers from 1992 to 1993 . He also chaired the governments Deregulation Task Force from 1994 to 1997 . This was preparation as Cabinet Office Minister from 2010 , when he was required to highlight areas of expenditure where savings could be made from streamlining the delivery and implementation of policy goals . Shadow Cabinet , 1997–2010 . In the 1997 general election Maude was elected MP for Horsham . Almost immediately he was re-appointed to the Conservative front bench , now the opposition in Parliament . He served as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture , Media and Sport , Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Shadow Foreign Secretary until 2001 . Maude managed Michael Portillos unsuccessful bid for the Conservative leadership in 2001 , after which he declined a front bench role under the new Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith . He was considered to be a moderniser and on the centre-left of the party , writing in The Daily Telegraph ( 24 June 2002 ) , he said that the Conservative Partys electoral problems had been caused by its failure to look and sound like modern Britain . Norman Tebbits secretary , Beryl Goldsmith , criticised Maude after this , asking : Outside the Shadow Cabinet , Maude founded Conservatives for Change , CChange , becoming its first chairman . CChange was designed to promote the modernisation of the Conservative Party . Around the same point he also founded Policy Exchange . After the 2005 general election , Maude returned to the Shadow Cabinet as Chairman of the Conservative Party . As the so-called Holy Spirit of Conservative modernisation , Maude set the Tory Party on the path to reform which saw David Cameron selected as Party Leader . In his first speech to the Conservative Conference as Party Chairman , Maude presented what he calls his killer slide . The slide revealed that voters confronted with the party’s immigration policy neutrally supported it by two to one , but when told that it was a Conservative policy the proportions reversed . The point he was making was not that sound conservative ideas damaged the Conservative Party but that The Conservative Party , as it was then seen , was damaging good Conservative policies . During his tenure , alongside newly elected Leader David Cameron , the Conservatives adopted the A-List of parliamentary candidates , with priority being given to women and people from ethnic minorities . In July 2007 , Maude was made Shadow Cabinet Office Minister and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , with responsibility for preparing the Conservatives for government , with some dubbing him the Partys enforcer . At the Conservative Party Conference in October 2007 he said : David ( Cameron ) has asked me to lead an implementation team that will ensure that we are as well-prepared as any incoming government has ever been . Our priorities rigorously sorted . Our teams armed with the knowledge and capabilities that will enable new ministers to start making a difference from day one . Ahead of the 2010 general election , Maude led attempts by the then-Conservative Opposition to work with the UK Civil Service to prepare for government . Maude supported Republican John McCain in the 2008 U.S . presidential election . He led the Conservative Party delegation to the 2008 Democratic National Convention . Return to Government , 2010–2016 . Maude was appointed Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office , with the right to attend Cabinet , on 12 May 2010 , following the formation of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition . As Cabinet Office Minister , Maude was responsible for : public service efficiency and reform groups , Civil Service issues , industrial relations strategy in the public sector , transparency , civil contingencies , civil society and cyber-security . Efficiency and Reform . In 2010 Maude set up the Efficiency and Reform Group ( ERG ) , in the Cabinet Office to work with HM Treasury with the aim of making government departments more efficient . This work includes stopping wasteful spending ; improving the way government buys goods and services ; reducing losses from fraud , error and debt ; raising money by selling empty buildings and underused properties ; and reviewing and reshaping large scale projects . Savings are difficult to measure , but the work of ERG claims to have contributed to £3.75 billion of savings in 2010–11 , £5.5 billion in 2011–12 and an unprecedented £10 billion in 2012–13 . ERG claims to achieve savings of at least £20 billion in the financial year 2014 to 2015 . Cumulatively , by 2015 Maude had delivered more than £50 billion of audited savings during the Cameron–Clegg coalition government . These savings included include £3.4 billion by reducing the size of the Civil Service and reforming Civil Service pensions ; £3.8 billion by linking together departments to buy goods and services and enforcing controls on recruitment and use of consultants ; and £0.6 billion by exiting 500,000 square metres of property . In December 2014 Francis Maude set out plans to make a further £10 billion of efficiency savings between 2017 and 2018 and an additional £15 to £20 billion for 2019 to 2020 . Civil Service reform . In June 2012 Maude laid out his plans for reforming the Civil Service . The Reform programme was endorsed by leadership of the Civil Service , the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service . The document laid out a series of practical actions including steps to improve the skills , abilities and performance of civil servants ; introduce a sharper performance management system ; create a modern employment offer for staff ; improve IT and flexible working across departments ; and tighten the delivery of major projects . A year after the publication of the initial plan , Maude updated Parliament with a One Year On document , setting out successes and failures . This document included various further steps : establishing the principle of Extended Ministerial Offices , and introducing Functional Leadership across Whitehall . However , in November 2013 , former Cabinet secretary Lord Butler of Brockwell told the BBC that Mr Maude and some of his colleagues dont understand leadership . Butler said the relationship between ministers and the Civil Service worked best when there was loyalty on both side and public criticism showed something was wrong . A spokesman for Maude said good leadership required issues to be addressed , not swept under the carpet . Transparency . Maude oversaw the Governments groundbreaking transparency policy . This work includes making sure that departments include specific open data commitments in their business plans , regularly publishing open data sets on all central and local government spending over £25,000 , senior staff salary details and how the government is performing against objectives . Data.gov.uk contains over 9,000 datasets including local crime statistics , sentencing rates , hospital infection rates and GP performance . Maude also led the UK Governments work with the Open Government Partnership . This work helped make the British government the most open in the world at the time , and led directly to the creation of services such as the Citymapper app and challenger banks like Monzo . Following Maudes reforms the United Nations rated the UK government as the most open in world . Government Digital Service and GOV.UK . Maude was responsible for the creation of the Government Digital Service , with the aim to consolidate internal IT and replace government 1,700 various websites with a single web hub , gov.uk . The new consolidated website won Design of the Year 2013 at the Design Museum awards , beating The Shard and the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron . Its revolutionary single source model inspired government websites around the world , including in the United States , New Zealand and Australia . The Government Digital Strategy also committed Departments to redesigning all existing government services that serve more than 100,000 users each year . Maudes office estimated that moving services from offline to digital channels could save approximately £1.8 billion a year ; at the time digital transactions cost 20 pence each compared to £3 for a phone call and £7 for a physical letter . In June 2014 Maude warned that elderly people would have to apply for key benefits including Carers Allowance online . His remarks were criticized by organizations who work with the elderly partly on the grounds that poorer people may not be able to afford computer facilities and , partly because even computer literate people may lose their skills in old age . Whilst critics estimated that over 5 million pensioners have never used the internet , Maude said that refuseniks could be offered a one-off lesson . Elevation to the Lords . In February 2015 , Maude announced he would be standing down at the general election three months later . Following the election , on 14 May 2015 Maude was elevated to the House of Lords and he was created , by letters patent , Baron Maude of Horsham , of Shipley in the County of West Sussex on 26 May 2015 . This allowed him to be appointed as Minister of State for Trade and Investment jointly at the Department for Business , Innovation and Skills and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , replacing Lord Livingston of Parkhead . Nine months later , Maude announced his resignation from this post on 10 February 2016 , to be replaced by Mark Price . Career outside of Parliament : 2016–present . Since leaving his role as Minister for Trade and Investment in March 2016 , Maude has begun a number of new business roles , including serving as an advisory board member at OakNorth Bank which deals with business and property finance , and specialises in supporting the UKs growth businesses since September 2016 . He has been an advisory board member at Anvest Partners , a real estate investment company since May 2016 , and a Senior Adviser with Covington & Burling LLP , a business and corporate law firm since November 2016 . He has also been a Non Executive Chairman at Cogent Elliott Group Ltd , an advertising agency , since November 2016 . Maudes primary occupation since leaving politics is his role as the co-founder and chairman of FMAP Limited , which he runs with his former special advisor Simone Finn , Baroness Finn . It is a consulting firm specialising in government efficiency and reform around the world , with its work based on Maudes experience as Minister for the Cabinet Office . Controversies . While in the Shadow Cabinet Maude was accused of hypocrisy by promoting a family-friendly image while being the non-executive chairman of Jubilee Investment Trust plc , which held 21% of American pornographic actress Jill Kellys adult DVD business , and chairman of the Mission Marketing Group , which has advertised for WKD drinks and Playboy . Maude , who has railed against irresponsible lending by banks and mortgage companies , was accused of hypocrisy for receiving more than £100,000 as a director of a company that has profited from sub-prime mortgages . His annual salary was £25,000 from 2002 to 2005 , for attending around six meetings a year for the company , and £12,000 a year 2006 to 2008 . The company went into liquidation in April 2009 . Maude faced criticism during the expenses scandal . However the Legg Report made no complaint against him and found that he had no issues . The Daily Telegraph had argued that : two years after the Fees Office rejected a claim for mortgage interest on Maudes Sussex home , Maude purchased a flat in London , close to another house he already owned . He rented out the London house and claimed £35,000 mortgage interest on this flat . During a discussion on Newsnight on 22 October 2010 Maude stated that ministerial salaries had been reduced by 5% under the new Government . He was accused of comparing this cut to the pain suffered by Britains poor . Maude supports the Big Society , but says that his work as an MP is a sufficient contribution to it . Maude argued that like most people he was doing things which could be defined as volunteering with a capital V but are part of being an active citizen in an active community . Fuel crisis . On 28 March 2012 , during the 2012 United Kingdom fuel crisis , Maude advised people to fill up their vehicles and to store fuel in garages in jerrycans . His remarks were widely criticised , queues up to half a mile long formed outside petrol stations and petrol retailers criticised the Government for causing panic . Matt Wrack , General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union pointed out Maudes advice was dangerous and illegal , and could be disastrous in the event of a fire . Brian Madderson , the petrol chairman of the Retail Motor Industry Federation said that the Government appeared to be intent on creating a crisis out of a serious concern and that drivers should ignore dangerous advice . Maude denied that it would increase the risk of explosions , however the following day Transport Minister Mike Penning , a former firefighter , confirmed the advice was wrong , saying he didnt think Maude understood how big jerrycans were . On 30 March 2012 , the Labour Peer the Lord Harris called for Maudes resignation , after a woman suffered severe burns during an attempt to decant petrol next to a lit gas cooker . Harris believed that Maudes advice helped cause the incident . Personal life . Maude married Christina Jane Hadfield in 1984 , and they have five children . He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1988 to 2006 and was Chairman of the Governors from 1995 to 2003 .