Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn
The Baroness Penn | |
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Official portrait, 2020
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Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury | |
Assumed office 26 October 2022 |
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Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | TBC |
Baroness-in-waiting Government Whip |
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In office 19 March 2020 – 20 September 2022 |
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Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | The Lord Bethell |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 21 October 2019 Life Peerage |
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Personal details | |
Born | 1985 (age 39–40) |
Political party | Conservative |
Joanna Carolyn Penn, Baroness Penn (born 1985), known as JoJo Penn,[1] is a British political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting (a government whip) from March 2020 to September 2022.[2] Since October 2022, she has been a parliamentary secretary (a junior minister) in HM Treasury.
Biography
She served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019.[3][4] In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[5] She was created Baroness Penn, of Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond, on 10 October 2019.[6]
Penn became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019:[7] she was succeeded as baby of the house by Lord Harlech following the election on 14 July 2021. She made her maiden speech on 30 January 2020 during a debate on Defence, Diplomacy and Development Policy.[8] From 29 October 2019 to 21 April 2020, she was a member of the Lord's Science and Technology Committee.[9] She served as a baroness-in-waiting, a junior government whip, from 19 March 2020 to 20 September 2022.[10] Since 30 October 2022, she has been a parliamentary secretary, the most junior level of minister, in HM Treasury.[9]
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