Caroline Nokes
Caroline Nokes | |
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Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Second Deputy Chair of Ways and Means | |
| Assumed office 23 July 2024 | |
| Speaker | Sir Lindsay Hoyle |
| Preceded by | Nigel Evans |
| Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee | |
| In office 29 January 2020 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Maria Miller |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Owen |
| Minister of State for Immigration | |
| In office 8 January 2018 – 24 July 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Brandon Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Seema Kennedy |
| Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office | |
| In office 14 June 2017 – 8 January 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Dawn Butler |
| Succeeded by | Oliver Dowden |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery | |
| In office 17 July 2016 – 14 June 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Shailesh Vara |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Dinenage |
| Chair of the Advisory Committee on Works of Art | |
| In office 8 July 2015 – 17 July 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Frank Doran |
| Succeeded by | Alison McGovern |
| Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Sandra Gidley |
| Majority | 2,191 (4.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Caroline Fiona Ellen Perry 26 June 1972 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Marc Nokes
(m. 1995; div. 2012) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex |
| Website | www |
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Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes (née Perry; born 26 June 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North since 2010.
From 2014 to 2015 she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mark Harper at the Department for Work and Pensions. Nokes served in Theresa May's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2016 to 2017, Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2017 to 2018, and as Minister of State for Immigration at the Home Office from January 2018 to July 2019.