Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn
The Right Honourable The Baroness Penn | |
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Minister on Leave | |
In office 1 March 2024 – 5 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Interim | The Baroness Swinburne[a] |
In office 15 September 2021 – 26 January 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Interim | The Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen[b] |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities | |
In office 13 November 2023 – 1 March 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | The Baroness Swinburne |
Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury | |
In office 26 October 2022 – 13 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | The Baroness Vere of Norbiton |
Baroness-in-waiting Government Whip | |
In office 4 February 2022 – 26 October 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | The Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen |
In office 19 March 2020 – 15 September 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | The Lord Bethell |
Succeeded by | The Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 21 October 2019 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1985 (age 38–39) |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) Harvard Kennedy School (MPA) |
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] 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.
Biography
Penn studied history and politics at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2006.[3] She later studied at Harvard University, completing a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree in 2015.[3][4]
She served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019.[5][6] In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[7] She was created Baroness Penn, of Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond, on 10 October 2019.[8]
Penn became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019:[9] 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.[10] From 29 October 2019 to 21 April 2020, she was a member of the Lord's Science and Technology Committee.[11] She served as a baroness-in-waiting, a junior government whip, from 19 March 2020 to 20 September 2022.[12] Between 30 October 2022 and 13 November 2023, she was a parliamentary secretary, the most junior level of minister, in HM Treasury.[11]
Notes
- ^ In accordance with the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, Swinburne has temporarily served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary during Penn's maternity leave.
- ^ In accordance with the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, Chisholm temporarily served as Baroness-in-waiting during Penn's maternity leave.
References
- ^ "Theresa May appoints top allies to House of Lords". POLITICO. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Parliamentary Career Page". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Penn, Baroness, (Joanna Carolyn Penn)". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Resignation Honours 2019". GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ "No. 62798". The London Gazette. 16 October 2019. p. 18552.
- ^ "Membership and principal office holders". UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Baroness Penn (30 January 2020). "Defence, Diplomacy and Development Policy". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 801. United Kingdom: House of Lords. col. 1582–1584.
- ^ a b "Baroness Penn: Parliamentary career". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "Baroness Penn: Parliamentary career". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
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