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Grant Shapps

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Grant Shapps is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Grant Shapps · Γκραντ Σαπς · Грант Шеппс · Грант Шэппс · Գրանտ Շեփս · 8 more...				[sources]
Other name	Shapps, Grant · Грант Шеппс · Шэппс, Грант · グラント・シャップス · 格蘭·夏普斯 · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Michael Green · 格兰特·夏普思 · 格兰特·夏普斯 · 格兰特·沙普斯				[sources]
Birth date	1968-09-14				[sources]
Place of birth	Watford				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United Kingdom				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	sandra@welhatconservatives.com · shappsg@parliament.uk				[sources]
First name	Grant				[sources]
Last name	Shapps				[sources]
Phone	+442072198497				[sources]
Title	The Right Honourable				[sources]
Website	www.shapps.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.gov.uk · www.gov.uk				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q478596				[sources]
Position	Chairman of the Conservative Party (2012-2015) · Home Secretary (2022-2022) · House of Commons (member, 2005-2010) · House of Commons (member, 2010-2015) · House of Commons (member, 2015-2017) · 16 more...				[sources]
Education	Manchester Metropolitan University · Watford Grammar School for Boys · West Herts College				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician, Secretary of State for Defence

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-11-28

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Iran	Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister Without Portfolio	2012-09-04	2015-05-11

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Data sources

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,660

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,225

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,493

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,043

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ir-san-c8d4890aefa4578d879bcfb1895c11173c3f7772 · evpo-166f4f53-c421-40b1-aa62-10e3a206728b · us-cia-united-kingdom-grant-shapps-secretary-of-state-for-defense

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