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Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn

Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn

British Conservative politician

Joanna Carolyn Penn, Baroness Penn (born 1985), known as JoJo Penn,[1] is a British political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting (a government whip) from March 2020 to September 2022.[2] Since 1 March 2024 she has been a Minister on Leave.[3]

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From November 2023 to March 2024, she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, which she has been temporarily replaced by Baroness Swinburne while she is a Minister on Leave. [4]

Biography

Penn studied history and politics at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2006.[5] She later studied at Harvard University, completing a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree in 2015.[5][6]

She served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019.[7][8] In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[9] She was created Baroness Penn, of Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond, on 10 October 2019.[10]

Penn became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019:[11] she was succeeded as baby of the house by Lord Harlech following the election on 14 July 2021. She made her maiden speech on 30 January 2020 during a debate on Defence, Diplomacy and Development Policy.[12] From 29 October 2019 to 21 April 2020, she was a member of the Lord's Science and Technology Committee.[13] She served as a baroness-in-waiting, a junior government whip, from 19 March 2020 to 20 September 2022.[14] Between 30 October 2022 and 13 November 2023, she was a parliamentary secretary, the most junior level of minister, in HM Treasury.[13]

Notes

  1. In accordance with the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, Swinburne has temporarily served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary during Penn's maternity leave.
  2. In accordance with the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, Chisholm temporarily served as Baroness-in-waiting during Penn's maternity leave.

References

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    "Theresa May appoints top allies to House of Lords". POLITICO. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Parliamentary Career Page". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Ministerial Appointments: 1 March 2024". GOV.UK. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  4. [4]
    "Ministerial appointments: November 2023". GOV.UK. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Penn, Baroness, (Joanna Carolyn Penn)". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  6. [6]
    "Joanna Penn MPP 2015 on her Summer Internship". Harvard Kennedy School. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. 26 August 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  7. [7]
    Mason, Rowena; Scruton, Paul; Fenn, Chris (4 October 2017). "Theresa May's team: the PM's inner and outer circles". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  8. [8]
    "The Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right: Iain Dale's 2017 List". LBC. 2 October 2017. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  9. [9]
    "Resignation Honours 2019". GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  10. [10]
    "No. 62798". The London Gazette. 16 October 2019. p. 18552.
  11. [11]
    "Membership and principal office holders". UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  12. [12]
    Baroness Penn (30 January 2020). "Defence, Diplomacy and Development Policy". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 801. United Kingdom: House of Lords. col. 1582–1584.
  13. [13]
    "Baroness Penn: Parliamentary career". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  14. [14]
    "Baroness Penn: Parliamentary career". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 September 2022.


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