Meg Hillier
Dame Meg Hillier | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Chair of the Treasury Select Committee | |
| Assumed office 9 September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Harriett Baldwin |
| Chair of the Public Accounts Committee | |
| In office 18 June 2015 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Margaret Hodge |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
| In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011 | |
| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Ed Miliband |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Flint |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010 | |
| 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) |
| Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch | |
| Assumed office 5 May 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Brian Sedgemore |
| Majority | 14,737 (35.4%) |
| Member of the London Assembly for North East | |
| In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Jennette Arnold |
| Mayor of Islington | |
| In office May 1998 – May 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Rupert Perry |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Sands |
| Islington Borough Councillor for Sussex Ward | |
| In office 5 May 1994 – 2 May 2002 | |
| Succeeded by | Ward abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Margaret Olivia Hillier 14 February 1969 Hampstead, London, England |
| Political party | Labour and Co-operative |
| Spouse | Joe Simpson |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Website | www |
Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier DBE (born 14 February 1969), known as Meg Hillier, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch since 2005. Hillier was a junior government minister from 2007 until 2010 and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle. She has been the chair of the Treasury Select Committee since 2024, having previously chaired the Public Accounts Committee from 2015 to 2024.