Meg Hillier

Dame Meg Hillier DBE MP
Official portrait, 2024
Chair of the Public Accounts Committee
In office 18 June 2015 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Margaret Hodge
Succeeded by	TBD [1]
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005[2]
Preceded by	Brian Sedgemore
Majority	14,737 (35.4%)
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	Ward 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.^[3] She chaired the Public Accounts Committee from 2015 until 2024.