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Dame Meg Hillier
DBE
Official portrait, 2020
Chair of the Public Accounts Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 June 2015
Preceded by
Margaret Hodge
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005[1]
Preceded by
Brian Sedgemore
Majority
33,985 (62.4%)
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
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Margaret Olivia Hillier
(1969-02-14) 14 February 1969 (age 55) Hampstead, London, England
Political party
Labour and Co-operative
Spouse
Joe Simpson
Children
3
Alma mater
St Hilda's College, Oxford
Website
www.meghillier.com
Dame Margaret Olivia HillierDBE (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.[2] She has chaired the Public Accounts Committee since 2015.
^"Contact information for Meg Hillier - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk.
^Stratton, Allegra; Sparrow, Andrew; Wintour, Patrick (7 October 2011). "Labour reshuffle: Miliband promotes newly elected MPs". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
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