Chloe Smith

**Chloe Rebecca Smith** (born 17 May 1982) is a British politician. She was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from September 2022 to October 2022.

## Career

Smith used to be the Secretary of State for Disabled People, Work and Health from 2021 to 2022. She is a member of the Conservative Party. She became the MP for Norwich North in 2009.

Smith was elected in a 2009 by-election. This was after the resignation of Labour Party MP Ian Gibson after the MPs' expenses scandal. Smith held a number of junior ministerial positions for two terms under David Cameron and Theresa May as Secretary of the Constitutional Assembly.

She held the latter role following Boris Johnson's victory in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. In February 2020, she was promoted to Minister of State during the second Johnson ministry.

In 2021, Smith was appointed by Johnson as Minister of State for the Department for Work and Pensions. After Johnson resigned in 2022, Smith backed Liz Truss for Conservative leadership. Truss later appointed her as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

On 22 November 2022 Smith announced that she would not stand for election to Parliament at the 2024 general election.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office3**: Minister of State for Disabled People, Work and Health
- **term start3**: 16 September 2021
- **term end3**: 6 September 2022
- **primeminister3**: Boris Johnson
- **predecessor3**: Justin Tomlinson
- **successor3**: Claire Coutinho
- **office4**: Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution
- **term start4**: 9 January 2018
- **term end4**: 16 September 2021
- **primeminister4**: Theresa May
Boris Johnson
- **predecessor4**: Chris Skidmore
- **successor4**: Nigel Adams
- **primeminister5**: David Cameron
- **predecessor5**: Mark Harper
- **successor5**: Greg Clark
- **term start5**: 4 September 2012
- **term end5**: 6 October 2013
- **office6**: Northern Ireland Office, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- **primeminister6**: Theresa May
- **term start6**: 14 June 2017
- **term end6**: 9 January 2018
- **predecessor6**: Kris Hopkins
- **successor6**: Shailesh Vara
- **office7**: Economic Secretary to the Treasury
- **primeminister7**: David Cameron
- **term start7**: 14 October 2011
- **term end7**: 4 September 2012
- **predecessor7**: Justine Greening
- **successor7**: Sajid Javid


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Chloe Smith
- **image**: Official portrait of Chloe Smith MP crop 2.jpg
- **office1**: Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
- **term start1**: 28 April 2023
- **term end1**: 20 July 2023
- **primeminister1**: Rishi Sunak
- **predecessor1**: Michelle Donelan
- **successor1**: Michelle Donelan
- **office2**: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- **primeminister2**: Liz Truss
- **term start2**: 6 September 2022
- **term end2**: 25 October 2022
- **predecessor2**: Thérèse Coffey
- **successor2**: Mel Stride
- **office8**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
 for Norwich North
- **term start8**: 23 July 2009
- **term end8**: 30 May 2024
- **predecessor8**: Ian Gibson (politician), Ian Gibson
- **successor8**: Alice Macdonald
- **birth name**: Chloe Rebecca Smith
- **birth place**: Ashford, Kent, England
- **nationality**: British
- **children**: 2
- **alma mater**: University of York
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **website**: [http://www.chloesmith.org.uk/ www.chloesmith.org.uk]
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2020