Caroline Nokes

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The Right Honourable Caroline Nokes MP
Official portrait, 2020
Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 January 2020
Preceded by	Maria Miller
Minister of State for Immigration
In office 8 January 2018 – 24 July 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Brandon Lewis
Succeeded by	Seema Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
In office 14 June 2017 – 8 January 2018
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Dawn Butler[a]
Succeeded by	Oliver Dowden
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery
In office 17 July 2016 – 14 June 2017
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Shailesh Vara
Succeeded by	Caroline Dinenage
Chair of the Advisory Committee on Works of Art
In office 8 July 2015 – 17 July 2016
Preceded by	Frank Doran
Succeeded by	Alison McGovern
Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Sandra Gidley
Majority	10,872 (21.2%)
Personal details
Born	Caroline Fiona Ellen Perry (1972-06-26) 26 June 1972 (age 51)[1] Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England[2]
Political party	Conservative[b]
Spouse	Marc Nokes ​ ​ (m. 1995; div. 2012)​
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Sussex
Website	www.carolinenokes.com
^ Office vacant between 11 May 2010 and 14 June 2017. ^ Whip suspended from 3 September 2019 to 29 October 2019.

Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes^[3] (née Perry;^[4] born 26 June 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North in Hampshire in the 2010 general election. Elected as a Conservative, Nokes had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and sat as an independent politician until the whip was restored to her on 29 October.

From 2014 to 2015 she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mark Harper at the Department for Work and Pensions.^[5] 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.^[6]