Janet Fookes

The Right Honourable The Baroness Fookes DBE DL
Official portrait, 2023
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 December 2002
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Second Deputy Chair of Ways and Means
In office 27 April 1992 – 14 May 1997
Speaker	Betty Boothroyd
Preceded by	Betty Boothroyd
Succeeded by	Michael Lord
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 October 1997 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Plymouth Drake
In office 28 February 1974 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Merton and Morden
In office 18 June 1970 – 8 February 1974
Preceded by	Humphrey Atkins
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	(1936-02-21) 21 February 1936 (age 88)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative

Janet Evelyn Fookes, Baroness Fookes, DBE, DL (born 21 February 1936) is a British politician.^[1] A member of the Conservative Party, she is a life peer in the House of Lords. She was previously a member of the House of Commons from 1970 to 1997, representing the constituencies of Merton and Morden (1970–74) and Plymouth Drake (1974–97). She was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, and presently is a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords.