Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker

Elizabeth " Liz " Jean Barker, Baroness Barker ( born January 31, 1961) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats.

Life and career

She attended the Dalziel High School and the University of Southampton.

In the Union of Liberal Students from 1982 to 1983 she was President. From 1983 to 1988, Barker Project Coordinator at Opportunities for volunteering program.

Barker worked 1983-2007 for the charity Age Concern. From 1988 to 1992 she was there Grants Officer. From 1992 to 2007 she was a Field Officer and a management consultant with the organizations of Age Concern in various London districts.

She is the head ( Head ) of Business Development, seethedifference.org, a management consulting firm in the nonprofit sector since 2007. From 2010 to 2012 she was Vice President of the Local Government Association.

Political career

She joined in 1979 the Liberal party. Barker was from 1979 to 1983 member of the Union of Liberal Students. Also from 1982 to 1983 she was a member of the Liberal Party National Executive. From 1984 to 1997 she was a member of the Liberal Assembly Committee and from 1997 to 2003 with the Federal Policy Committee. At the Liberal Democrat Federal Conference Committee from 1997 to 2004 she was chairman. She was one of The Future of Social Services Policy Working Group, the Freedom and Fairness for Women Policy Working Group, the Working Group - An Age of Opportunity, the It's About Freedom - Liberal Democracy Policy Working Group and again in 2004 the Liberal Democrat Federal Executive to.

From 2006 to 2007 Barker was chairman of the Policy Working Group on: Poverty and Inequality and from 2010 to 2011 in the Policy Working Group on The Future of the Voluntary Sector.

Membership in the House of Lords

Barker was appointed Life Peeress as Baroness Barker, of Anagach in Highland on 31 July 1999. Your inaugural speech in the House of Lords held on 19 October 1999.

As subjects of political interest calls on the website of the House health, social services, aging, and Civil Liberties. As the state of interest are called India.

For the Liberal Democrats, she was spokesperson for pensions from 2000 to 2002, for social services from 2000 to 2004 and for health questions from 2004 to 2010.

Since 2007 she is deputy chairman of the People with Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis Group.

• Session of April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002: 86 days
• Session of April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003: 130 days
• Session of April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2004: 125 days
• Session 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005: 120 days
• Session of April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006: 115 days
• Session of April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007: 130 days
• Session 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008: 140 days
• Session 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009: 142 days
• Session 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010: 127 days
• Session of April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010: 21 days
• Session 1 July 2010 to 30 September 2010: 17 days
• Session 1 October 2010 to 31 December 2010: 47 days
• Session 1 January 2011 to 31 March 2011: 44 days
• April 2011: 6 days ( 7 )
• May 2011: 13 days ( 15 )
• June 2011: 17 days ( out of 17)
• July 2011: 13 days ( out of 13)
• August 2011: 1 day ( 1 )
• September 2011: 8 days ( 8 )
• October 2011: 17 days ( 18 )
• November 2011: 18 days ( 18 )
• December 2011: 12 days ( out of 13)
• January 2012: 14 Days ( 14 )
• February 2012: 14 days ( 14 )
• March 2012: 16 days ( out of 17)
• April 2012: 5 days ( out of 5)
• May 2012: 13 days ( out of 13)
• June 2012: 13 days ( out of 13)
• July 2012: 16 days ( out of 16)
• August 2012: 0 days ( 0 )
• September 2012: 0 days ( 0 )
• October 2012: 16 days ( 16 /17)

In the analyzed period from 2001 their presence was initially sitting days in the middle, and later in the regular range.

In October 2009, caused a stir that it expenses for their alleged principal residence referred to this time in four years, even though she lived in London for 20 years. They claimed to live in Sussex, but refused to give details.