ROMSEY’S MP has been appointed a minister in the Prime Minister’s new cabinet.

Caroline Nokes will now hold the post of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions as part of Theresa May’s reshuffle.

She has previously served on the education select committee and the environmental audit committee and as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Work and Pensions and most recently the Department for Transport.

Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green will be her boss in the department as she works on delivering welfare.

Ms Nokes has also served as the Chair of the Speakers Committee on Works of Art and prior to the referendum unveiled an artwork dedicated to the Suffragette movement at Westminster Palace.

She said: “I am honoured and delighted to have been asked to serve as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions. 

“Having previously been a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the DWP I look forward to being able to hit the ground running in my new role.

“I will, of course, continue to be just as available to my constituents while carrying out my additional duties in the Department.”

Further details of Ms Nokes’s specific responsibilities in the department will be announced in due course.

A spokesman for her office said that she will still be members of her constituency will still be able to contact her despite her new duties.

Last week Ms Nokes said she was “pleased” to see Mrs May become the new prime minister

She said: “I am very pleased that Britain has its second female Conservative prime minister.

“I have no doubt that Theresa May will do an outstanding job in both leading the country and reuniting the party.

“Her speech in Downing Street was progressive and focused on her genuine belief in social mobility and I look forward to seeing the policies she puts forward.”

Previously, Ms Nokes has campaigned for tighter controls on the fashion industry in order to protect underweight models.