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Caroline Nokes
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes (née Perry; born 26 June 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North since 2010.
From 2014 to 2015 she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mark Harper at the Department for Work and Pensions. Nokes served in Theresa May's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2016 to 2017, Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2017 to 2018, and as Minister of State for Immigration at the Home Office from January 2018 to July 2019.
Caroline Nokes was born on 26 June 1972 at Lyndhurst Hospital in Lyndhurst, and raised in West Wellow, a village in Hampshire. Her father is Roy Perry, a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Wight and Hampshire South constituency. Nokes was educated at The Romsey School, La Sagesse Convent in Romsey and then Peter Symonds' College, Winchester, before reading politics at the University of Sussex from 1991 to 1994.
After her graduation Nokes became a policy adviser to her father, in his role as a MEP. Prior to her election she was chief executive of the National Pony Society, an animal welfare charity promoting and supporting the traditional native breeds of ponies through education, training and competition.
Nokes was a member of Test Valley Borough Council from 1999 until 2010, representing the Romsey Extra ward, and for some time was responsible for the leisure portfolio. She stood down as a councillor when she was elected to parliament in May 2010.
At the 2001 general election, Nokes stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Southampton Itchen constituency, where she finished second with 27.4% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour Party MP John Denham.
Nokes also stood unsuccessfully for the Romsey constituency at the 2005 general election, where she finished second with 44.4% of the vote behind the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sandra Gidley.
Nokes was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of Romsey and Southampton North, defeating Liberal Democrat MP Sandra Gidley who had previously represented the Romsey constituency. She was elected with 49.7% of the vote and a majority of 4,156.
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Caroline Nokes
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes (née Perry; born 26 June 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North since 2010.
From 2014 to 2015 she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mark Harper at the Department for Work and Pensions. Nokes served in Theresa May's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2016 to 2017, Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2017 to 2018, and as Minister of State for Immigration at the Home Office from January 2018 to July 2019.
Caroline Nokes was born on 26 June 1972 at Lyndhurst Hospital in Lyndhurst, and raised in West Wellow, a village in Hampshire. Her father is Roy Perry, a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Wight and Hampshire South constituency. Nokes was educated at The Romsey School, La Sagesse Convent in Romsey and then Peter Symonds' College, Winchester, before reading politics at the University of Sussex from 1991 to 1994.
After her graduation Nokes became a policy adviser to her father, in his role as a MEP. Prior to her election she was chief executive of the National Pony Society, an animal welfare charity promoting and supporting the traditional native breeds of ponies through education, training and competition.
Nokes was a member of Test Valley Borough Council from 1999 until 2010, representing the Romsey Extra ward, and for some time was responsible for the leisure portfolio. She stood down as a councillor when she was elected to parliament in May 2010.
At the 2001 general election, Nokes stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Southampton Itchen constituency, where she finished second with 27.4% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour Party MP John Denham.
Nokes also stood unsuccessfully for the Romsey constituency at the 2005 general election, where she finished second with 44.4% of the vote behind the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sandra Gidley.
Nokes was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of Romsey and Southampton North, defeating Liberal Democrat MP Sandra Gidley who had previously represented the Romsey constituency. She was elected with 49.7% of the vote and a majority of 4,156.