Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox
Judith Ann Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox (born 31 October 1940) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. From May 2010 to September 2012 she had been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.[1][2]
She used to run a family business in Devon and was chair of the National Consumer Council from 1990 to 1996. On 16 January 1996, she was made a life peer as Baroness Wilcox, of Plymouth in the County of Devon.[3][4] Between 1997 and 2006 she held a non-executive director position on the board of Cadbury Schweppes.[5][6]
Baroness Wilcox is a Trustee of the Community of St Mary the Virgin,[7] one of the oldest surviving Religious Communities in the Church of England.
Expenses
In July 2015 Wilcox was criticised for claiming £300 a day in House of Lords attendance allowances, £74,400 over two years, even though she could walk there from her house only two hundred yards away.[6]
References
- ↑ Conservative Party website
- ↑ BIS - Ministers - Baroness Wilcox
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54217. p. 1. 18 November 1995. The London Gazette: no. 54294. p. 1. 22 January 1996.
- ↑ UK Parliament - Baroness Wilcox
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- ↑ Charity Commission website
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