Margaret Hodge
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The Right Honourable Dame Margaret Hodge DBE MP |
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Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge DBE MP
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| Chair of the Public Accounts Committee | |
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In office 10 June 2010 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir Edward Leigh |
| Succeeded by | Meg Hillier |
| Minister of State for Culture and Tourism | |
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In office 22 September 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Barbara Follett |
| Succeeded by | John Penrose |
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In office 27 June 2007 – 3 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | David Lammy |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Follett |
| Minister of State for Work | |
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In office 9 May 2005 – 27 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Jane Kennedy |
| Succeeded by | Jim Murphy |
| Minister of State for Children | |
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In office 13 June 2003 – 9 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Maria Eagle |
| Minister for Universities | |
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In office 11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Succeeded by | Alan Johnson |
| Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People | |
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In office 29 July 1998 – 11 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Paul Boateng |
| Succeeded by | Maria Eagle |
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Member of Parliament for Barking |
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Assumed office 9 June 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Jo Richardson |
| Majority | 16,555 (36.5%) |
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Margaret Eve Oppenheimer 8 September 1944 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Nationality |
 United Kingdom
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| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Watson (1968–1978, divorced) Sir Henry Hodge (1978–2009, deceased) |
| Children | 4 (1 son, 3 daughters) |
| Residence | London |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Politician and parliamentarian |
| Profession | Economist |
Dame Margaret Eve Hodge DBE (née Oppenheimer; born 8 September 1944) is a British Labour politician, who has served as Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994.
Hodge was created Minister for Children in 2003 before becoming Minister of State for Culture and Tourism in 2005. On 9 June 2010 she was elected Chairman of the influential Public Accounts Committee, in succession to Sir Edward Leigh MP.
Born Margaret Eve Oppenheimer, she was known as Margaret Eve Watson from 1968 to 1978. She was styled Lady Hodge after her second husband, Sir Henry Hodge, was knighted in 2004, until her appointment as DBE in 2015 when she became Dame Margaret Hodge.
She was born in 1944 in Cairo, Egypt, to Jewish refugee parents Hans Oppenheimer (1908-1985), and his wife Lisbeth (née Hollitscher). Hans Oppenheimer left Stuttgart in Germany during the 1930s to join his uncle's metals business based in Cairo and Alexandria, where he met his fellow émigrée, Austrian-born Lisbeth Hollitscher. Married in 1936, Hans and Lisbeth went on to have five children: four girls and a boy.
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