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KEEGAN
Gillian

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills

Conservative Party (UK)

Date of Birth: 13 March 1968
Age: 58 years old
Place of Birth: Knowsley, England
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1. Early life
2. Professional career
3. Political career
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5. Personal life

Biography

Gillian Keegan (born 13 March 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester since the 2017 general election. She is the constituency's first female MP. In February 2020 she was appointed as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills and is the first former apprentice to hold the office.

Early life

Keegan grew up in Knowsley, Merseyside, and went to St Augustine of Canterbury Secondary School (renamed St Thomas Becket Catholic High School) in Huyton. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Studies from Liverpool John Moores University and a Master of Science in Strategy and Leadership (Sloan Fellowship) from London Business School in 2011.

Professional career

Keegan started her career aged 16 as an apprentice at a car factory in Kirkby and went on to have a business career working at Delco Electronics (part of the General Motors Group), NatWest Bank (Senior Buyer), MasterCard International (Commercial Director), Amadeus IT Group (Group Vice President of Multinational Customer Group based in Madrid) and Travelport (Chief Marketing Officer) over 27 years.

Political career

Keegan has said that it was her experiences of trade unionism and the Militant-controlled Liverpool City Council while working in Kirkby in the 1980s that convinced her to support the Conservative Party. However, she did not become active in politics until 2014. In 2015, she was advised in her ambitions to become an MP by Justine Greening, whom she met by chance at a London Business School (LBS) reunion; according to her, this demonstrated the power of the LBS network. She unsuccessfully contested the constituency of St Helens South and Whiston in the 2015 general election. In 2015 she became Director of Women2Win—an organisation founded by Theresa May and Baroness Anne Jenkin in 2005 to help elect more women Conservative MPs to Parliament. She had left that position by September 2017.

Keegan was elected as a councillor for the Rogate ward on Chichester District Council in 2014. She was appointed cabinet member for commercial services in May 2015. She stood down as a councillor in February 2018 and in the election that followed in April 2018, the seat was taken by the Liberal Democrat candidate Kate O'Kelly. Keegan went on to beat O'Kelly by 21,490 votes in the General Election in December 2019.

Keegan was selected as the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for the Chichester constituency in May 2017, and was elected to the House of Commons in the General Election held on 8 June 2017. In September 2017, she was appointed to the Public Accounts Committee. She was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to HM Treasury in September 2018. In January 2019, she became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence.

In February 2019, Keegan was appointed as MP Apprenticeship Ambassador by Anne Milton, with responsibility to support apprenticeship schemes and promote them both within Parliament and to businesses within the UK, working alongside the Apprenticeship Ambassador Network consisting of various advocates of apprenticeship schemes. She endorsed Rory Stewart during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.

Keegan became PPS to the Home Secretary in May 2019, and PPS to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in September 2019. In February 2020, she was appointed as the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills, a junior ministerial role at the Department for Education.

In August 2020, Keegan was criticised for being on holiday during the A-Level results crisis. She defended herself by stating that she was not the Minister responsible for A-Level and GCSE qualifications. She said that although she had been the duty Minister for the first two weeks of summer recess, she had obtained special permission to take her government PC to continue working during this period.

Other interests

Keegan was a member of the Board of Governors of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust[9] from 2015 to 2017.

Personal life

Keegan lives in Petworth in West Sussex with her husband, Michael, and has two stepsons.

Her father-in-law, Denis Keegan, was Conservative MP for Nottingham South.

Keegan is godmother to two of former Speaker John Bercow's children.

Keegan owns several properties and has homes in France and Spain. Michael was the CEO of Fujitsu UK and Ireland from April 2014 to June 2015, and then Head of the EMEIA Technology Business, before leaving the company in 2018. Criminal prosecutions of postmasters by the Post Office using Horizon data had ceased before Michael Keegan was appointed as CEO of Fujitsu UK and Ireland for 15 months commencing April 2014.

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Date of Birth 13 March 1968

Age 58 years old

Zodiac sign Pisces Fish - go with the flow People born under the sign of Pisces are mostly passive, devoid of perseverance, purposefulness and unstable. They are not able to withstand the circumstances, they are constantly hovering in dreams, believing that everything…

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Scorpio	96%
Taurus	96%
Aquarius	92%
Capricorn	88%
Pisces	88%
Aries	80%
Cancer	76%
Virgo	76%
Sagittarius	72%
Leo	68%
Gemini	64%
Libra	60%

Chinese horoscope Monkey Monkey - energy and mind People born in the Monkey years, on the one hand, are smart, dexterous and agile. On the other hand, they are eccentric, contradictory and unreliable. All of them are rewarded with irascibility, a certain willfulness and wil…

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Goat	92%
Dragon	92%
Dog	84%
Horse	84%
Rabbit	80%
Snake	80%
Monkey	80%
Bull	76%
Rooster	72%
Pig	68%
Rat	64%
Tiger	52%

Slavic horoscope Wolf Born under the Wolf sign of the Slavic horoscope, people often combine mythic memory with practical steadiness — reading cycles early and standing firm for those they call their own.

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Aurochs	96%
Fox	96%
Stork	96%
Bear	92%
Wolf	88%
Lynx	84%
Eagle	84%
Raven	84%
Horse	80%
Finist	76%
Elk	76%
Serpent	64%
Swan	64%
Pike	60%
Boar	56%
Virgin	56%

Egyptian horoscope Isis Isis in the Egyptian horoscope marks a period ruled by a distinct god — shaping temperament, luck in affairs, and the way a person protects what they value.

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Thoth	92%
Osiris	92%
Isis	88%
Set	84%
Anubis	84%
Geb	84%
Amun-Ra	84%
Horus	80%
Bastet	76%
Mut	76%
Nile	76%
Sekhmet	56%

Druid horoscope Ash Ash bridges the practical and the meaningful. Born 18 February to 17 March, Ash people connect ideas, languages and people, making complex things understandable.

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Alder	96%
Rowan	92%
Ash	88%
Holly	84%
Oak	80%
Birch	80%
Hawthorn	76%
Willow	76%
Hazel	64%
Reed	60%
Ivy	56%
Vine	56%
Elder	44%

Indian horoscope Meena The Vedic rashi Meena carries a sidereal rhythm of Jyotish — temperament, dharma leanings, and the ruling graha color how a person acts and chooses.

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Kumbha	92%
Meena	88%
Makara	84%
Tula	84%
Vrishchika	80%
Dhanu	76%
Simha	64%
Mithuna	60%
Kanya	56%
Karka	56%
Vrishabha	44%
Mesha	36%

Flower horoscope Lily The flower talisman Lily reflects character through nature’s calendar — sensitivity, aesthetic sense, and seasonal rhythm shape daily choices.

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Foxglove	96%
Belladonna	96%
Immortelle	96%
Dahlia	92%
Hydrangea	92%
Magnolia	92%
Poppy	92%
Mimosa	92%
Mistletoe	92%
Lily	88%
Delphinium	84%
Rose	84%
Water lily	84%
Tulip	84%
Purslane	84%
Sunflower	80%
Daisy	80%
Gentian	80%
Carnation	76%
Wild rose	76%
Violet	76%
Bellflower	76%
Chamomile	76%
Thistle	76%
Dandelion	64%
Gladiolus	64%
Lilac	64%
Camellia	64%
Peony	60%
Heather	60%
Edelweiss	56%
Lotus	56%
Orchid	56%
Freesia	56%
Aster	56%

Decan horoscope Pisces — 3rd decan Born in the Pisces — 3rd decan period, people often show a sharper flavor of their sign: faster or slower, bolder or more reflective, yet always recognizable by birth date.

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Pisces — 1st decan	96%
Aquarius — 2nd decan	96%
Pisces — 2nd decan	92%
Aquarius — 3rd decan	92%
Aquarius — 1st decan	92%
Pisces — 3rd decan	88%
Capricorn — 2nd decan	84%
Sagittarius — 3rd decan	84%
Scorpio — 3rd decan	84%
Scorpio — 1st decan	84%
Libra — 1st decan	84%
Capricorn — 3rd decan	80%
Sagittarius — 1st decan	80%
Libra — 2nd decan	80%
Capricorn — 1st decan	76%
Sagittarius — 2nd decan	76%
Scorpio — 2nd decan	76%
Libra — 3rd decan	76%
Virgo — 2nd decan	64%
Leo — 2nd decan	64%
Cancer — 3rd decan	64%
Gemini — 3rd decan	64%
Gemini — 1st decan	64%
Leo — 3rd decan	60%
Cancer — 1st decan	60%
Virgo — 3rd decan	56%
Virgo — 1st decan	56%
Leo — 1st decan	56%
Cancer — 2nd decan	56%
Gemini — 2nd decan	56%
Taurus — 1st decan	44%
Aries — 2nd decan	44%
Taurus — 2nd decan	40%
Taurus — 3rd decan	36%
Aries — 3rd decan	36%
Aries — 1st decan	36%

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