Meg Hillier
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Meg Hillier MP |
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Meg Hillier in 2007
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| Chair of the Public Accounts Committee | |
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Assumed office 18 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Margaret Hodge |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
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In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Ed Miliband |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Flint |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Joan Ryan (Under-Secretary of State for Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration) |
| Succeeded by | Damian Green (Minister of State for Immigration) |
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Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Brian Sedgemore |
| Majority | 13,225 (31.6%) |
| Member of the London Assembly for North East |
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In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Jennette Arnold |
| Mayor of Islington | |
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In office May 1998 – May 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Rupert Perry |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Sands |
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Islington Borough Councillor for Sussex Ward |
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In office 5 May 1994 – 2 May 2002 |
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| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
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14 February 1969 Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse(s) | Joe Simpson |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Margaret Olivia Hillier (born 14 February 1969) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch since the 2005 general election, and was a junior government minister (2007–10) and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle.
Hillier was educated at Portsmouth High School, an independent fee-paying school for girls in Southsea, Hampshire, followed by St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics and during her time there was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union Society.
Hillier worked as a journalist and was elected as a Councillor in the London Borough of Islington in 1994, serving as the Mayor of Islington in 1998, before standing down from the Council in 2002. She was elected as a founding Member of the London Assembly for North East London at the first London Assembly election of 2000, she served on the Assembly until 2004, and was a board member of Transport for London until she was elected serve to in Parliament.
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