Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox

The 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

  1. Conservative Party website
  2. BIS - Ministers - Baroness Wilcox
  3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54217. p. 1. 18 November 1995. The London Gazette: no. 54294. p. 1. 22 January 1996.
  4. UK Parliament - Baroness Wilcox
  5. "Baroness Wilcox retires from Cadbury Schweppes board". M2 PressWIRE Archive. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015. Confectionery and beverage company Cadbury Schweppes (LSE:CBRY) (NYSE:CSG) announced on Friday (1 December) that Baroness Wilcox will retire from the company's board on 31 December 2006. The Baroness has been a non-executive director on the board of the company since 1997.
  6. 1 2 Wilkinson, Michael (29 July 2015). "Peer claims £300 a day in expenses to walk 200 yards to work at House of Lords". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  7. Charity Commission website
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