Olivia Caroline (nee Provis [3]) Bloomfield,Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (born 30 June 1960) is a British life peer and member of the House of Lords.
In January 2018,British Investigative magazine Private Eye reported Bloomfield had been forced to admit she had overlooked a personal connection when she had praised the "high standards of reporting and transparency" of financial services offered in the Cayman Islands. According to the magazine,she was later forced to admit that "a close family member is a director of a financial services company domiciled in the Cayman Islands".[12]
Bloomfield has held a post as a magistrate.[8] She is also Chairman of the Pump House Project,an arts and parkour centre in her home town of Faringdon.[13][14] She was also,for a time,a partner at the Atlantic Superconnection Corporation,a fund which plans to build an electric cable between Iceland and the UK.[14][15][16]
Since 2018,she has acted in support of U.S. nuclear small modular reactor company Terrestrial Energy,for which she received share options in 2018,now lapsed,and again in 2023.[19]
In June 2023,she resigned from the Sunak ministry as a Lords Whip (Baroness in Waiting).[20]
In November 2024,Kemi Badenoch appointed her as Shadow Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales.
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