Name
Baroness Penn
Job Title
Treasury Lords Minister, HM Treasury
Company
Co-Chair of the Transition Plan Taskforce
Speaker Bio
Baroness Penn was appointed Treasury Lords Minister in the UK Government on 30 October 2022, having been Baroness in Waiting (Government whip) between 19 March 2020 and 20 September 2022.
She previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019 and became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019. From 29 October 2019 to 21 April 2020, she was a member of the Lord's Science and Technology Committee.
The Treasury Lords Minister is also responsible for:
• Economic security
• Financial sanctions (including OFSI)
• Countering economic crime and illicit finance
• Russia/Ukraine conflict
• Trade policy (input to DIT FTAs): services, including financial services
• International climate and nature finance
• ESG in financial services, including Green Finance
• Women in Finance
• Overseas territories and Crown Dependencies
She previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019 and became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019. From 29 October 2019 to 21 April 2020, she was a member of the Lord's Science and Technology Committee.
The Treasury Lords Minister is also responsible for:
• Economic security
• Financial sanctions (including OFSI)
• Countering economic crime and illicit finance
• Russia/Ukraine conflict
• Trade policy (input to DIT FTAs): services, including financial services
• International climate and nature finance
• ESG in financial services, including Green Finance
• Women in Finance
• Overseas territories and Crown Dependencies