Crouch resigned yesterday after nearly 18 months as youth minister, claiming that she was unhappy with the government delaying measures to reduce maximum stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals.
She took over the youth policy brief in June 2017 from former Conservative MP Rob Wilson, who failed to retain his seat in the general election that year.
Crouch's remit within the Department for Culture, Media, Sport and Digital grew to include gambling, sport, civil society and youth policy, with loneliness policy also added this year.
Her replacement will be the seventh minister with responsibility for youth policy since 2010, with the role previously filled by Brooks Newmark, Tim Loughton, Edward Timpson and Nick Hurd over the past eight years.
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