Dame Meg Hillier | |
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Chair of the Public Accounts Committee | |
In office 18 June 2015 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Margaret Hodge |
Succeeded by | TBD [1] |
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011 | |
Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Ed Miliband |
Succeeded by | Caroline Flint |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity | |
In office 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Joan Ryan (Under-Secretary of State for Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration) |
Succeeded by | Damian Green (Minister of State for Immigration) |
Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch | |
Assumed office 5 May 2005[2] | |
Preceded by | Brian Sedgemore |
Majority | 14,737 (35.4%) |
Member of the London Assembly for North East | |
In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Jennette Arnold |
Mayor of Islington | |
In office May 1998 – May 1999 | |
Preceded by | Rupert Perry |
Succeeded by | Jenny Sands |
Islington Borough Councillor for Sussex Ward | |
In office 5 May 1994 – 2 May 2002 | |
Succeeded by | Ward abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Margaret Olivia Hillier 14 February 1969 Hampstead, London, England |
Political party | Labour and Co-operative |
Spouse | Joe Simpson |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
Website | www |
Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier DBE (born 14 February 1969), known as Meg Hillier, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch since 2005. Hillier was a junior government minister (2007–10) and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle.[3] She chaired the Public Accounts Committee from 2015 until 2024.