Robert Buckland

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Buckland KBE KC
Official portrait, 2022
Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee
In office 28 November 2023 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Simon Hoare
Succeeded by	Tonia Antoniazzi
Secretary of State for Wales
In office 7 July 2022 – 25 October 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson Liz Truss
Preceded by	Simon Hart
Succeeded by	David T. C. Davies
Secretary of State for Justice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office 24 July 2019 – 15 September 2021
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	David Gauke
Succeeded by	Dominic Raab
Minister of State for Prisons and Probation
In office 9 May 2019 – 24 July 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Rory Stewart
Succeeded by	Lucy Frazer
Solicitor General for England and Wales
In office 15 July 2014 – 9 May 2019
Prime Minister	David Cameron Theresa May
Preceded by	Oliver Heald
Succeeded by	Lucy Frazer
Member of Parliament for South Swindon
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Anne Snelgrove
Succeeded by	Heidi Alexander
Personal details
Born	Robert James Buckland (1968-09-22) 22 September 1968 (age 56) Llanelli, Wales
Political party	Conservative
Children	2
Residence(s)	Wroughton, Wiltshire, England
Education	St Michael's School, Llanelli
Alma mater	Inns of Court School of Law Hatfield College, Durham (LLB)
Profession	Barrister, recorder
Website	robertbuckland.co.uk

Sir Robert James Buckland KBE KC (born 22 September 1968) is a British politician who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from 2019 to 2021, and as Secretary of State for Wales from July to October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected as the member of Parliament (MP) for South Swindon in 2010, holding the seat until the 2024 general election.^[1]

Buckland was Solicitor General for England and Wales from 2014 to 2019 and Minister of State for Prisons from May to July 2019. He was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor by Boris Johnson in July 2019, serving until the cabinet reshuffle in September 2021. In July 2022, following the mass resignation of ministers from the Johnson government, he was appointed Secretary of State for Wales by Johnson, and continued to serve in the position under Liz Truss; he resigned from the role when new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took office in October 2022.