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Official portrait, 2017
Baroness Verma at the "Mock Council of the European Union", 2011, a student debate organized by the British Council.

Sandip K. Verma, Baroness Verma (born 30 June 1959) known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana, is an Indian-English 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 she has held since 13 May 2015, and was previously the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, from 2015 to 2016.

Life

Born in Amritsar in the Punjab, India, as a child Verma migrated with her parents to England, arriving in 1960. In 1977, aged seventeen, she married Ashok Verma. They have a daughter and a son.

Verma was an unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate in Hull East at the United Kingdom general election, 2001, finishing third, and in Wolverhampton South West in the general election of 2005, coming second to the Labour incumbent, Rob Marris.

On 2 June 2006, she was created a life peer, taking the title "Baroness Verma, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire". The same year, she was appointed as a Patron of the Tory Reform Group.

Until the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition following the May 2010 general election, Verma was an Opposition Whip and Conservative Spokesperson in the House of Lords on Education and Skills and for Health. In 2010 she became a Government Whip and Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, International Development, and Equalities and Women's Issues.

She was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015, and then for International Development from May 2015 to July 2016.

References

  1. "Birthdays". The Guardian. Guardian Media. 30 June 2014. p. 33. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. "RANA, Sandip K, & VERMA Ashok, in Register of Marriages for Leicester C Registration District, vol. 6 (1977), p. 1900
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/person/5951/sandip-verma
  4. "No. 58004". The London Gazette. 7 June 2006. p. 7793.
  5. House of Lords (22 June 2006). "Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords". minutes of proceedings. Retrieved 28 October 2006.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Ministers". gov.uk.
  8. "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development Baroness Verma". gov.uk.
  9. "Sandip Verma @Baroness_Verma". Twitter.


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