Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma
Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma (born June 30, 1959 in Amritsar , Punjab , India ) is a British entrepreneur and politician of the Conservative Party , who has been a member of the House of Lords since 2006 .
Life
Professional activities and unsuccessful candidacies for the lower house
Sandip Sherma who with her parents from India to the UK in 1960 emigrated , was the founder and managing director of the private home health care and nursing company Domiciliary Care Services Ltd .
At the beginning of 2000 she began her political engagement in the Conservative Party, of which she has been a member since 1999, and was initially active between 2001 and 2003 in the women's association of the party ( Conservative Women ). In the general election on June 7, 2001 , she ran unsuccessfully for the first time for a member of the House of Commons , in the constituency of Hull East .
A second candidacy for a seat in the House of Commons failed in the subsequent general election on June 7, 2005 in the constituency of Wolverhampton South West .
House of Lords
In May 2006, she was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Verma , of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire . On 22 June 2006 introducing (followed Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .
During the subsequent membership in the upper house it was between 2006 and 2010, she served as parliamentary secretary of the conservative Tory - faction in the upper house ( Opposition Whip ) and at the same time first from 2006 to July 2007 spokeswoman opposition on education and health, then from 2007 to May 2010 for universities and skills as well as between 2007 and 2009 for innovation and at the same time from 2007 to 2008 for children, schools and families. In these functions she was a member of her party's shadow cabinet between June 2006 and May 2010 .
During this time, was Baroness Verma, which since 2006 patron of the Tory Reform Group 's 2006-2008 chairman of the Conservative Party in Leicester South and then from 2008 to 2008 chairman of the Urban Community of the Conservative Party in Leicester .
After the victory of the Tories in the general election on May 6, 2010 , she remained as Parliamentary Director Whip of the current government faction and has been spokeswoman for her group for the cabinet office as well as women and equality since 2010. In addition, she was parliamentary group spokesperson for international development from 2010 to 2011 and has also been spokeswoman for the Conservative Party in the House of Lords for companies, innovation and skills since 2011. Between 2010 and 2011 she was again chairman of the Conservative Party in Leicester.
In 2010 the University of Wolverhampton awarded her an honorary degree in business administration .
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 9 July 2012)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 9, 2012)
- Homepage of the Conservative Party (Page call on July 9, 2012)
- Asian, female and conservative? . In: The Independent of September 10, 2008 (accessed on July 9, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Baroness Verma of Leicester: University of Wolverhampton Business School - Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Homepage of the University of Wolverhampton , accessed on July 9, 2012)
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| SURNAME | Verma, Sandip, Baroness Verma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verma, Sandip, Baroness Verma (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amritsar , Punjab , India |