Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma

Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire (born 30 June 1959, Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a British entrepreneur and politician of the Conservative Party, which is since 2006 member of the House of Lords.

Life

Professional activities and unsuccessful candidates for the House

Sandip Sherma, who with her parents immigrated from India to the UK in 1960, was founder and managing director of the private home healthcare and nursing company Domiciliary Care Services Ltd.

In early 2000 she began her political involvement in the Conservative Party, which has belonged since 1999, and was initially between 2001 and 2003 in the Women's Association of the party ( Conservative Women) active. In the general election on 7 June 2001 she applied unsuccessfully for the first time elected to the House of Commons, in the constituency of Hull East.

A second bid for a seat in the House failed in the subsequent general election on 7 June 2005 in the constituency of Wolverhampton South West.

House of Lords member

In May 2006, she was raised by a Letters Patent as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Verma, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire in the peerage. On 22 June 2006 their introduction ( Introduction) followed as a member of the House of Lords.

During the subsequent membership of the House of Lords it was between 2006 and 2010, she served as parliamentary secretary to the conservative Tory faction in the House of Lords ( Opposition Whip ) and at the same time first from 2006 to July 2007, spokeswoman opposition on education and health, then from 2007 to May 2010 for universities and skills and also between 2007 and 2009 for innovation and at the same time from 2007 to 2008 for children, schools and families. In these roles, she was between June 2006 and May 2010 in the shadow cabinet of their party.

During this time, Baroness Verma was the Reform Group since 2006 has been a patron of the Tory, from 2006 to 2008 chairman of the Conservative Party in Leicester South and then from 2008 to 2008 Chairman of the Urban Community of the Conservative Party in Leicester.

After the victory of the Tories in the general election on 6 May 2010, she remained as parliamentary secretary Whip of the reorganized government faction and since 2010 its Group spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office as well as women and equality. In addition, it was from 2010 to 2011 spokesperson for International Development and is since 2011 in addition spokeswoman for the Conservative Party in the House of Lords for Business, Innovation and Skills. Between 2010 and 2011 she was again Leader of the Conservative Party in Leicester.

2010 she was awarded the University of Wolverhampton an honorary doctorate in business administration.