[1][2] He is a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company, the management consultancy, and a visiting fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

Firstly, between 1987 and 1991, he was a chorister at St John's College School, Cambridge, where he sang under George Guest and Christopher Robinson.

Having won the Vellacott Historical Essay Prize, he graduated with a starred double first in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was an "exhibitioner" and "scholar".

[9][10] His main three pledges were the retention of services at Ipswich Hospital, a crackdown on binge drinking, and no new housing without provision of infrastructure.

[14] Before becoming a minister, Gummer sat on two separate finance bill committees, as well as those on childcare payments, defamation, legal aid, and terrorism prevention.

[15] He was a member of the UK parliamentary delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and a patron of the Longford Trust.

[16][non-primary source needed] Gummer used his maiden speech to argue for rapid deficit and debt reduction and penal reform.

[21] He also added his name to an amendment to clause one of the Protection of Freedoms Bill, which calls for the word 'insulting' to be dropped from section 5 of the Public Order Act.

[23] In 2012, Gummer proposed annual tax statements intended to show itemised spending per department in proportion to the amount the taxpayer paid in the year to date.

[24] Gummer's proposal was favourably received by the press in the UK and in the US by the Wall Street Journal[25] It was included in the 2012 Budget and due for introduction in 2014 with George Osborne calling it "an excellent idea".

[33] In February 2014, Gummer brought in a ten minute rule bill to rename National Insurance contributions as an Earnings Tax.

[36] In September 2012, Gummer was promoted to Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alan Duncan, Minister of State for International Development, in the government reshuffle.

[39] Following the 2015 general election, Gummer became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality in the Department of Health, one of the broadest junior ministerial briefs.

[49][50] The business case for the crossings, which noted that for every £1 invested, the scheme would yield £5.73 of direct benefits[51] was submitted to the governmental administration in January 2016.