Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
Christopher Laurie "Kit" Malthouse (born 27 October 1966) is a British politician, businessman and occasional writer serving as Minister of State for Crime and Policing at the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice since February 2020. He was the Minister for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Hampshire since 2015.
Malthouse served on the Westminster City Council from 1998 to 2006 and was Deputy Council Leader from 2004 to 2006. He served as a Conservative member of the London Assembly for West Central from 2008 to 2016. He represented the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He served under Mayor of London Boris Johnson as Deputy Mayor for Policing from 2008 to 2012 and Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise from 2012 to 2015.
He was elected as Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire at the 2015 general election. Following the 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Malthouse was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions. After Dominic Raab was appointed Brexit Secretary, Malthouse served as Minister of State for Housing and Planning from 2018 to 2019. Malthouse was credited as the convener of an agreement between limited factions of the Conservative Party on Brexit, The Malthouse Compromise in January 2019. The compromise was later voted down in Parliament in March 2019.