Guy Opperman, MP for Hexham in north east England, was appointed minister for roads and local transport at the Department for Transport in November 2023.
Prior to this appointment, Mr Opperman was minister of state at the Department for Work and Pensions between November 2023 and October 2022, and parliamentary under secretary of state at the same department between June 2017 and September 2022. Before this, he served as a Government whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from May 2015 to June 2017.
Mr Opperman was elected Conservative MP for Hexham in May 2010.
Away from politics
Guy Opperman was educated at Harrow School before going on to read law at the University of Buckingham. He also gained a first class diploma from the University of Lille.
He was called to the bar in 1989 and then spent 20 years as a barrister, and was director of his family’s engineering business until 2009. He is also an amateur jockey and rode his first winner in 1985.
Responsibilites
As minister for roads and local transport, his responsibilities include road safety, roads maintenance and infrastructure delivery (including National Highways), motoring agencies (DVLA, DVSA, VCA), local transport including buses, taxis, light rail and active travel (cycling and walking)
My comment relates to the impromptu siting of trafic speed cameras
I have recently been photographed at 48mph in what is now a 40mph road the speed trap serves very little purpose except to cause distress to drivers and there family’s the road in question is a follow on from a 70mph motorway to which I was in a line of trafic slowing down siting a vehicle with a radar gun is just outrageous I am of no danger to myself or others being on the 1st lane several car spaces behind the next vehicle would it not be more helpfull to put a sign up saying you are subject to a speed check rather than prosicute just at will this police state attitude cannot be right as it never seems to promote any form of road safety
Cary Peterman, Manchester
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