Following his re-election to Parliament in 2010 , Wallace was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then-Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor , and later Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office , Ken Clarke MP . On 4 September 2012 , Wallace turned down a position as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury during the cabinet reshuffle . to remain Clarke 's PPS . In July 2014 , as Clarke returned to the back benches , Wallace was again offered a job in Government as a whip . This time he accepted . In May 2015 he was promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Northern Ireland Office . After the EU referendum , the new Prime Minister , Theresa May , promoted him to Minister of State for Security in the Home Office . In December 2017 the Ministerial portfolio was extended to include Economic Crime . He was the Security Minister during the terror attacks of 2017 and the Salisbury attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal Sergei Skripal Wallace was appointed to the Privy Council for his role in coordinating the government response to the 2017 Westminster attack
2017 Westminster attack
2017 Westminster attack
Ben Wallace (politician)