Baroness Hodge of Barking DBE PC, is a British politician and life peer, who served as Member of Parliament for Barking from 1994-2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously Leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992. She was the first Children’s Minister from 2003 to 2005, Minister for Universities from 2001-2003 and Minister for the Arts and the Creative Industries for the last years of the Labour Government. In 2010 she became the first elected Chair of the Public Accounts Committee and was also its first female Chair. She held the post for the full parliamentary term, retiring in 2015. In December 2024, she was appointed as the UK’s Anti-Corruption Champion.
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