Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery
In office 17 July 2016 – 14 June 2017
Prime Minister
Theresa May
Preceded by
Shailesh Vara
Succeeded by
Caroline Dinenage
Chair of the Advisory Committee on Works of Art
In office 8 July 2015 – 17 July 2016
Preceded by
Frank Doran
Succeeded by
Alison McGovern
Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by
Sandra Gidley
Majority
10,872 (21.2%)
Personal details
Born
Caroline Fiona Ellen Perry
(1972-06-26) 26 June 1972 (age 51)[1] Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England[2]
Political party
Conservative[b]
Spouse
Marc Nokes
(m. 1995; div. 2012)
Children
1
Alma mater
University of Sussex
Website
www.carolinenokes.com
^Office vacant between 11 May 2010 and 14 June 2017.
^Whip suspended from 3 September 2019 to 29 October 2019.
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes[3] (néePerry;[4] born 26 June 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North in Hampshire in the 2010 general election. Elected as a Conservative, Nokes had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and sat as an independent politician until the whip was restored to her on 29 October.
From 2014 to 2015 she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mark Harper at the Department for Work and Pensions.[5] Nokes served in Theresa May's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2016 to 2017, Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2017 to 2018, and as Minister of State for Immigration at the Home Office from January 2018 to July 2019.[6]
^"Caroline Nokes MP". BBC Democracy Live. BBC News. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^"Nokes, Rt Hon. Caroline". Nokes, Caroline, (Born 26 June 1972), MP (C) Romsey and Southampton North, since 2010; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions, since 2016. Who's Who. A & C Black. 2011. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U251195.
^"No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010. p. 8742.
^"Caroline Nokes". conservatives.com. Conservative Party website. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
^Staff writer (24 July 2014). "MP Caroline Nokes lands first Government job in reshuffle". Daily Echo. Southampton. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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