The Baroness Penn | |
|---|---|
| Official portrait, 2024 | |
| 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 | |
| Life peerage 10 October 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) |
| 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.
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]