Who is Alok Sharma? Business Secretary and MP for Reading West
ALOK Sharma - a chartered accountant - is the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
But the Reading West MP is now self-isolating and has taken a coronavirus test to see if he has Covid-19.
Who is Alok Sharma?
Alok Sharma, 52, is Business Secretary and MP for Reading West.
He gained his Minister position on February 13, 2020.
According to his , the politician is "very much a local Reading man, and he grew up in Earley and Whitley Wood".
Born in India, he moved to Reading at the age of five, reports .
Sharma attended Reading Blue Coat School - the same independent school attended by Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer - in Sonning.
He was elected in 2010 for Reading West, with one of the largest swings to the Conservatives in the country.
Prior to becoming business secretary in Boris Johnson's February cabinet reshuffle, Sharma served as a member of the Commons Treasury and the Commons Science and Technology select committees, and was a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Treasury and at the Cabinet Office.
Sharma was appointed in 2016 as the PM's Infrastructure Envoy to India and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from July 2016 to June 2017.
He was very involved in setting up Reading's first free school, and campaigned to let Gurkhas settle permanently in the UK.
Sharma is married with two daughters, and says he is a "big supporter of local businesses".
He's a qualified chartered accountant who - prior to entering Parliament - worked with Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte.
Sharma also spent nearly two decades in the banking sector, based in London, Stockholm and Frankfurt.
Does Alok Sharma have coronavirus?
According to reports, the Business Secretary has been tested for Covid-19, but is still awaiting results.
He is currently self-isolating at home.
His spokesperson said on June 3 that he had been feeling unwell in his chamber.