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Sandip K. Verma, Baroness Verma (born 30 June 1959)^[1] known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana, is an Indian-English politician in the United Kingdom. An appointed member of the House of Lords, she is Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, a role she has held since 13 May 2015, and was previously the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, from 2015 to 2016.

Life

Born in Amritsar in the Punjab, India, as a child Verma migrated with her parents to England, arriving in 1960.{{cn|date=April 2019}} In 1977, aged seventeen, she married Ashok Verma.^[2] They have a daughter and a son.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

Verma was an unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate in Hull East at the United Kingdom general election, 2001, finishing third, and in Wolverhampton South West in the general election of 2005, coming second to the Labour incumbent, Rob Marris.^[3]

On 2 June 2006, she was created a life peer, taking the title "Baroness Verma, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire".^[4]^[5] The same year, she was appointed as a Patron of the Tory Reform Group.

Until the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition following the May 2010 general election, Verma was an Opposition Whip and Conservative Spokesperson in the House of Lords on Education and Skills and for Health. In 2010 she became a Government Whip and Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, International Development, and Equalities and Women's Issues.^[6]

She was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development from May 2015 to July 2016.^[7]^[8]^[9]

References

1. ^{{cite news | last = | first = | title = Birthdays | newspaper = The Guardian | location = | pages = 33 | language = | publisher = Guardian Media | date = 30 June 2014 | url = | accessdate = 30 June 2014}}
2. ^"RANA, Sandip K, & VERMA Ashok, in Register of Marriages for Leicester C Registration District, vol. 6 (1977), p. 1900
3. ^https://www.theguardian.com/politics/person/5951/sandip-verma
4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=58004 |date=7 June 2006 |page=7793}}
5. ^{{cite web | url= https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/minutes/060622/ldminute.htm| title= Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords| author= House of Lords| date= 2006-06-22| work= minutes of proceedings| accessdate= 2006-10-28}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/sandip-verma/35518 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-12-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203062407/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/sandip-verma/35518 |archivedate=3 December 2010 |df=dmy-all }}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Ministers|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers|publisher=gov.uk}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development Baroness Verma|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/baroness-verma|publisher=gov.uk}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Sandip Verma @Baroness_Verma|url=https://twitter.com/baroness_verma|publisher=Twitter}}