Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma
The Baroness Verma | |
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Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development | |
| In office 7 May 2015 – 13 July 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Northover |
| Succeeded by | James Wharton |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
| In office 4 September 2012 – 7 May 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Lord Marland |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth |
| Baroness-in-waiting Government Whip | |
| In office 11 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Crawley |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 22 June 2006 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 June 1959 Amritsar, Punjab, India |
| Political party | Conservative |
Sandip K. Verma, Baroness Verma (born 30 June 1959) known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana, is a British Indian politician in the United Kingdom. An appointed member of the House of Lords, she is Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, a role who chairs the UN Women's national committee. Verma was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, from 2015 to 2016.