Dame Meg Hillier | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Chair of the Treasury Select Committee | |
| Assumed office 9 September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Harriett Baldwin |
| Chair of the Public Accounts Committee | |
| In office 18 June 2015 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Margaret Hodge |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown[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 from 2007 until 2010 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 has been the chair of the Treasury Select Committee since 2024, having previously chaired the Public Accounts Committee from 2015 to 2024.
- ^ "Public Account Committee". committees.parliament.uk. Public Accounts Committee, House of Commons, United Kingdom, London. Commons Select Committee. Archived from the original on 12 September 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 11 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2015.