Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn

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The Baroness Penn
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Official portrait, 2020
Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury
Assumed office
26 October 2022
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Preceded by TBC
Baroness-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
19 March 2020 – 20 September 2022
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Preceded by The Lord Bethell
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
21 October 2019
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born 1985 (age 38–39)
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]

References

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