Meg Hillier

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Dame Meg Hillier DBE
Official portrait, 2020
Chair of the Public Accounts Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 June 2015
Preceded by	Margaret Hodge
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Ed Miliband
Succeeded by	Caroline Flint
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity
In office 28 June 2007 – 12 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Joan Ryan (Under-Secretary of State for Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration)
Succeeded by	Damian Green (Minister of State for Immigration)
Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch
In office 5 May 2005[1] – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Brian Sedgemore
Majority	33,985 (62.4%)
Member of the London Assembly for North East
In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Jennette Arnold
Mayor of Islington
In office May 1998 – May 1999
Preceded by	Rupert Perry
Succeeded by	Jenny Sands
Islington Borough Councillor for Sussex Ward
In office 5 May 1994 – 2 May 2002
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Margaret Olivia Hillier (1969-02-14) 14 February 1969 (age 55) Hampstead, London, England
Political party	Labour and Co-operative
Spouse	Joe Simpson
Children	3
Alma mater	St Hilda's College, Oxford
Website	www.meghillier.com

Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier DBE (born 14 February 1969), known as Meg Hillier, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch since 2005. Hillier was a junior government minister (2007–10) and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle.^[2] She has chaired the Public Accounts Committee since 2015.