Chris Philp was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in September 2020.

Prior to that, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office and Ministry of Justice from February 2020 to September 2021. Before that, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from September 2019 to December 2019 and Minister for London at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from December 2019 to February 2020.

He was previously a member of Onward’s Advisory Board, and authored a paper for Onward on reforming stamp duty.