Claire Coutinho Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

Claire Coutinho is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Surrey since the 2019 general election. She has been serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing since October 2022.

Coutinho served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disabled People from September to Oc tober 2022. She is a member of the Conservative Party. Before her political career, Coutinho worked for investment bank Merrill Lynch, accounting firm KPMG and as a special adviser in HM Treasury.

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Early life

Name	Claire Coutinho
Net Worth	$4 million
Occupation	Politician
Age	37 years
Height	1.71m

Claire Coutinho net worth

Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho was born on July 8, 1985 (age 37 years) in London, United Kingdom. Her parents emigrated from India in the late 1970s and are of Goan Christian descent. Her father Winston was a retired anesthetist, and her mother Maria is a GP. Coutinho was privately educated at James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich.

Coutinho studied mathematics and philosophy at Exeter College, Oxford. After graduating, she worked in the emerging markets equity team as an associate at the investment bank Merrill Lynch for nearly four years. In 2012, Coutinho left the company and co-founded a literary-themed supper club, The Novel Diner. Two years later, she appeared on the cooking game show The Taste.

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She worked for two years at Iain Duncan Smith’s center-right think tank Centre for Social Justice. She then became a programme director for the industry group Housing and Finance Institute. After this, she worked for the accounting firm KPMG as a Corporate Responsibility Manager. Coutinho left the company to become a special adviser at HM Treasury.

Claire Coutinho worked for Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Julian Smith and then became an aide to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak. Coutinho has commented that she left KPMG to join the government as a special adviser so that she could help deliver Brexit “from the inside”, which she had supported in the 2016 EU referendum.

Parliamentary career

Claire Coutinho was selected as the Conservative candidate for East Surrey on 11 November 2019. It is a safe Conservative constituency having elected a member of the party since 1918. She was elected as MP in the 2019 general election with a majority of 24,040 (40.3%).

The seat had previously been held by former minister Sam Gyimah who had the Conservative whip withdrawn after voting for the EU Withdrawal Act, an attempt to prevent a no-deal Brexit, and had subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats.

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In May 2020, Claire Coutinho was criticized by several of her local constituents for supporting Dominic Cummings (then the PM’s chief advisor) in taking a controversial 260-mile trip from London to County Durham during a national lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic.

In June 2020, an apparent protest took place as the windows of the East Surrey Conservative Association offices were daubed in black paint. Surrey Police stated they were investigating the vandalism. Coutinho was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary at HM Treasury and joined the advisory board of the center-right think tank Onward in February 2020.

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Claire Coutinho resigned from her position as PPS on 6 July 2022 in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership following the Chris Pincher scandal. Coutinho endorsed Rishi Sunak in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.

Husband

Is Claire Coutinho married? Claire Coutinho is currently single and has no ex-husband. When it comes to Claire Coutinho’s personal life, she has kept her relationship private from the public. The politician hasn’t revealed her partner or boyfriend to netizens. As of early 2023, she is not married and has no children from any previous relationships.