The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) is an interagency deliberative body of the United Kingdom responsible for intelligence assessment,coordination,and oversight of the Secret Intelligence Service,Security Service,GCHQ,and Defence Intelligence. The JIC is supported by the Joint Intelligence Organisation under the Cabinet Office.
Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley,Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone,is a British Conservative Party politician and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2005.
Estelle Morris,Baroness Morris of Yardley,,is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005.
Angela Frances Browning,Baroness Browning is a British Conservative Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tiverton and Honiton from 1997 to 2010,having previously been MP for Tiverton from 1992 to 1997.
Gisela Stuart,Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Labour Party,she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
Joyce Anne Anelay,Baroness Anelay of St Johns,,is a British Conservative Party politician,previously serving as Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry,after the 2017 reshuffle.
Helena Ann Kennedy,Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws,is a Scottish barrister,broadcaster,and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn,an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice,the law reform think tank,and is also director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.
Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller,Baroness Manningham-Buller,is a retired British intelligence officer. She worked as a teacher for three years before joining MI5,the British internal Security Service. She led the newly created Irish counter-terrorism section from 1992 and then became director in charge of surveillance and technical operations. She became Director General of MI5 in October 2002 and,in that capacity,led the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Following her retirement in April 2007,she became a crossbench life peer in 2008.
Mair Eluned Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Ely,,is a Welsh Labour politician who has served as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2024. She previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government from 2021 to 2024.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss,Baroness Butler-Sloss,GBE,PC is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004,when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007,she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana,Princess of Wales,and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date,and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
James Peter Brokenshire was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he served in Theresa May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2016 to 2018 and then as Secretary of State for Housing,Communities and Local Government from 2018 to 2019. He also served as a minister at the Home Office under David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Brokenshire was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornchurch from 2005 to 2010,and for Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2010 until his death in 2021.
Sayeeda Hussain Warsi,Baroness Warsi,is a British lawyer,politician,and member of the House of Lords who served as co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition,first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012,then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities,until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy relating to the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014. In September 2024 Baroness Warsi resigned the Whip and left the Conservative Party.
Caroline Anne Cox,Baroness Cox,is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005,as well as being a minister in government. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University,Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006 to 2013,and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.
Dame DeAnne Shirley Julius,is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House. An American–British economist,Julius is noted as a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
SharmishtaChakrabarti,Baroness Chakrabarti is a British politician,barrister,and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party,she served as the director of Liberty,a major advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights,from 2003 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020,she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales.
The minister of state for security is a senior ministerial position in the government of the United Kingdom,falling under the Home Office. The post was created by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 3 June 2009 by splitting the now-defunct post of the minister for security,counter-terrorism,crime and policing between this post and the new post of Minister for Crime and Policing.
Susan Frances Maria Williams,Baroness Williams of Trafford is a Conservative life peer who served as the Chief Whip of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 2022 and 2024. In March 2022 she was made a member of the Privy Council. She has been Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords since July 2024.
Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe,Baroness Neville-Rolfe is a British businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office from September 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she served in ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron,Theresa May,Liz Truss,and Rishi Sunak. In December 2021,she was appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to lead the statutory review into the state pension age.
Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik,Baroness Mobarik is a British Conservative politician and Life Peer. She served as a Member of European Parliament for Scotland from 2017 to 2020.
