Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British politician who served as the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years,from 1987 to 2019. He is the UK Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP.
Dame Vera Baird is a British barrister and politician who has held roles as a government minister,police and crime commissioner,and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
Sir Antony Brian Baldry,is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury from 1983 to 2015.
Dame Eleanor Fulton Laing,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Epping Forest from 1997 to 2024. She has served in the shadow cabinets of Michael Howard and David Cameron. From 2013 to 2024,Laing served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons;from 2020,as Chairman of Ways and Means,making her the senior Deputy Speaker,and the first woman to hold this post. She has one of the longest tenures in the Speaker's Chair.
Jacqueline Jill Smith is a British broadcaster,political commentator and Labour Party politician who has been serving as a Minister of State for Skills,Apprenticeships and Higher Education in the Department for Education since July 2024. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Redditch from 1997 to 2010 and is due to be conferred with a life peerage. She served as Home Secretary under Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2009 and was the first woman to hold the position.
Catherine Margaret Ashton,Baroness Ashton of Upholland,is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
Emily Anne Thornberry is a British Labour politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. She served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021 until the 2024 UK general election,and previously from 2011 to 2014. Thornberry has also served in a number of other senior positions on Labour's front bench,namely as Shadow Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2020,Shadow First Secretary of State from 2017 to 2020 and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2020 to 2021.
Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods is a British academic and former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham from 2005 to 2019.
Dame Maria Frances Miller is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basingstoke from 2005 until the 2024 general election,when she was unseated by Luke Murphy of the Labour Party. A member of the Conservative Party,she served as Secretary of State for Culture,Media and Sport from 2012 to 2014 under Prime Minister David Cameron.
Nadine Vanessa Dorries is a British author and a former politician who served as Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire from 2005 to 2023 for the Conservative Party.
Sir James Philip Duddridge,is a British politician and former banker. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochford and Southend East from 2005 to 2024. Duddridge previously held several ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron,Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is an officer of the British House of Commons. The work of the officer is overseen by the Commons Select Committee on Standards.
The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee,previously known as the Public Administration Select Committee,is a committee designated by the British House of Commons. Its purpose is to scrutinize reports from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,address issues pertaining to the quality of administration delivered by civil service departments,and explore various matters concerning the civil service,primarily in England and Wales,as well as constitutional affairs.
The Health and Social Care Select Committee is a Departmental Select Committee of the British House of Commons,the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament. Its remit is to examine the policy,administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its associated agencies and public bodies. The Clerks of the Committee are Previn Desai and Joanna Dodd.
Dame Julie Thérèse Mellor is chair of Demos,chair of the Young Foundation,chair of the Federation of Industry Sector Skills and Standards and a trustee of Involve,Nesta and Clore Social Leadership.
Androulla Vassiliou is a Cypriot and European politician. Between March 2008 and February 2010,she was the European Commissioner for Health,and then,until November 2014,the European Commissioner for Education,Culture,Multilingualism and Youth. Vassiliou is very active in social and cultural fields particularly within the UN and EU. In Cyprus she has held many important posts and is on the Board of many public and private companies.
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North since 2010. Elected as a Conservative,Nokes had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and sat as an independent politician until the whip was restored to her on 29 October.
Margaret Ann Throup is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erewash in Derbyshire from the 2015 general election to the 2024 general election. Prior to entering politics,Throup worked as a biomedical scientist and business consultant.
Simone Jari Finn,Baroness Finn is a businesswoman and British-American Conservative politician who served as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff from February 2021 until the end of the second Johnson Ministry.
Joyce Rebekah "Joy" Morrissey is an American-born British Conservative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield since 2019. She was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from November 2023 until July 2024.
