Charlotte Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton

Charlotte Sarah Emily Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton (born 9 March 1969) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. She serves also as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and was Executive Director of the Girls' Schools Association from 2013 to 2016.

The Right Honourable

The Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Official portrait, 2017
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
Assumed office
23 April 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byThe Baroness Sugg
Baroness-in-Waiting
Government Whip
In office
21 December 2016 – 30 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byThe Lord Henley
Succeeded byThe Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
12 September 2016
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1969-03-09) March 9, 1969
Malacca, Malaysia
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)Mike Chattey (m. 2016)
Alma materUniversity College London
Northwestern University

Education

Vere was educated at Stover School, University College London (BSc, 1989) and at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (MBA, 1997).[1]

Political career

She was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election. She finished third with 23.7 percent of the vote.[2] She served as a director of the No 2 AV campaign during the UK's 2011 referendum on changing its voting system,[3] later working as Executive Director of 'Conservatives In', an unsuccessful campaign supporting a remain vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.

She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Vere of Norbiton, of Norbiton in the Royal London Borough of Kingston upon Thames, on 30 August 2016.[4]

On 21 December 2016, she was appointed as a Baroness in Waiting (i.e. government whip in the House of Lords).[5]

She became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport on 23 April 2019, with responsibility for:

  • roads and motoring
  • buses and taxis
  • devolution
  • housing
  • light rail

References
  1. ‘VERE OF NORBITON’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
  2. "Election 2010 – Brighton Pavilion". BBC News.
  3. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-was-sacked-over-peerage-says-ex-girls-schools-chief-nvfbfswtc
  4. "No. 61694". The London Gazette. 5 September 2016. p. 18840.
  5. "Ministerial appointments: 21 December 2016". 10 Downing Street. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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