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Ros Altmann served as Minister of State for Pensions from May 2015 until July 2016. Education Ros attended the Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead. She graduated from the University College London with a first class honour…
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Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent was appointed Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) on 11 July 2024.
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Baroness (Angela) Browning was a teacher, auxiliary nurse, and management consultant before entering Parliament. She was MP for Tiverton (1992-1997) and for Tiverton and Honiton (1997-2010). She was Parliamentary Private Sec…
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Baroness Barran MBE was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from 27 October 2022 to 5 July 2024. She is Government equalities spokesperson in the Upper House. Prior to this she was: Parliam…
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Baroness Berridge of The Vale of Catmose was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System at the Department for Education and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women) at the Depar…
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Baroness Blackwood was a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care from January 2019 to February 2020. She previously served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Departmen…
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Baroness Blake of Leeds was appointed Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) on 11 July 2024.
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Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist was appointed as a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) on 29 July 2019.
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Baroness Buscombe was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness in Waiting) between June 2017 and July 2019. She was a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) from 21 December 20…
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Baroness Camilla Cavendish was appointed a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care on 13 January 2025. She is a contributing editor and columnist for The Financial Times, a research fellow at Harva…
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Baroness Chisholm was Baroness in Waiting from August 2019 to February 2020. She was previously appointed Baroness in Waiting on 13 May 2015 and was also appointed as spokesperson on Cabinet Office business in the House of L…
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Baroness Curran was appointed as a Minister of State in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 22 May 2025.
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Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 30 October 2022 to 1 January 2023. She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Departmen…
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Diana Mary “Dido” Harding, Baroness Harding is the chairwoman of NHS Improvement and former chief executive of the TalkTalk Group. On graduation she joined the management consultancy McKinsey & Company. In February 2017,…
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Baroness Fairhead CBE was the Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the Department for International Trade (DIT) from October 2017 to May 2019. As a former Business Ambassador for UK Trade and Investment (UKTI)…
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Baroness Finn, of Swansea, became a Conservative peer in 2015, and has served as a special adviser in the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Office and Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, and to the Prime Minister in 10 …
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Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE DL was born in Trinidad in 1949 and came to England as a 10 year old child in 1960 as a Windrush child. She left school at 16 with the aim of becoming Britain’s first ever black woman bank mana…
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Baroness Garden was appointed as a Government Whip and Baroness in Waiting in November 2014. She is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. Education She was educated at Westonbirt School and St Hilda’s College, Oxf…
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Baroness Goldie was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence between July 2019 and November 2023. She was a Baroness in Waiting and Government Whip in the House of Lords for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Dep…
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Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton CBE was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Investment) jointly in the Department for Business and Trade and HM Treasury on 10 October 2024. Prior to entering government, Baroness Gust…
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Baroness Hanham, CBE, is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, becoming a Life Peer in 1999. From 2010 to 2013, she was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government, and…
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Baroness Harriet Harman was appointed as the UK Special Envoy for Women and Girls on 8 March 2025 . Harriet was a Member of Parliament for Peckham for over 40 years (1982 to 2024). During this time, Harriet held several seni…
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Baroness Hayman of Ullock was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 9 July 2024, with responsibility for biosecurity and animal welfare. She was previou…
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Baroness Helena Morrissey was Lead Non-Executive Director at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from July 2020. She transferred to Lead Non-Executive Director of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in Septe…
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Baroness Hilary Armstrong has been appointed as the government’s first Chair of its new Digital Inclusion Action Committee. The Digital Inclusion Action Committee is an external advisory body that will work closely with DSIT…
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Baroness Jolly was appointed as the Lords Whip at the Department of Health; the Ministry of Defence; and at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (except on broadcasting) in October 2013. At the same time she was also …
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Baroness Jones of Whitchurch was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Business and Trade, and Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) between 9 …
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Kate Rock was a non-executive board member at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from May to September 2024. Kate is a Director of Wrackleford Farms Ltd, a tenant farming enterprise, and a Trustee and Dir…
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Baroness Kramer was appointed Minister of State for Transport in October 2013. She is a Liberal Democrat Peer. Education Baroness Kramer was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Political caree…
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Laura Wyld’s career has spanned business, public life and the voluntary sector. Her private sector work has included advising some of the UK’s most high-profile business leaders on communications, strategy and diversity and …
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Baroness Levitt KC was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice on 6 September 2025.
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Baroness Lloyd of Effra CBE was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Business and Trade on 11 September 2025. She was also appointed…
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Baroness Manzoor CBE was a Baroness in Waiting (government whip (unpaid)) from March 2018 to May 2019.
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Baroness Merron was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care on 9 July 2024.
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Baroness Mobarik served as a Baroness in Waiting from 17 July 2016 until 6 April 2017. She is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG was Minister of State between 20 September 2022 and 5 July 2024. Lucy joined the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer in October 2013 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at th…
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Baroness Northover was appointed to the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development on 4 November 2014. She was previously Lead Government Spokesperson in the House of Lords…
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Joanna (JoJo) Penn Baroness Penn was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 14 November 2023. She was appointed a Minister on leave (Parliamentary Unde…
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Biography Baroness Philippa Stroud is a British think tanker and the co-founder of Forum. She is a Member of the House of Lords, Executive Chair of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship and Chair of the Social Metrics Com…
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Baroness Randerson became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales in September 2012. She is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. Education Baroness Randerson studied at Bedford College, University …
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Ruby McGregor-Smith was a non-executive board member of the Department for Education between December 2015 and January 2022. Ruby was formerly the Chief Executive of the Mitie Group, a strategic outsourcing company, and was …
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Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 20 September 2022 and 5 July 2024. She was also Lords spokesperson for the Equality…
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Baroness Sherlock OBE was appointed as a Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions on 17 December 2024. She was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Work and Pensions from 9 …
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Baroness Joanna Shields was the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Internet Safety between September 2017 and February 2018. Baroness Shields was Minister for Internet Safety and Security from May 2015 to June 2017. …
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Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, is Chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Prudential plc and co-chair of the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab. Baroness Vadera has also been appointed as the co-chair of the Creative …
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Catherine Smith KC was appointed as Advocate General for Scotland in August 2024. She was appointed to the House of Lords in October 2024. Catherine was called to the Bar in 2007 and took silk in 2021. She acted as a part-ti…
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Baroness Sugg CBE was the Minister for Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from September until November 2020. She was first appointed as a Parliament…
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Baroness Swinburne was a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 1 March 2024 and 5 July 2024. Previously Baroness Swinburne was a Baroness in Waiting (Gover…