BARONESS ANGELA SMITH OF BASILDON
Chair

Angela Smith (The Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Basildon) is a former MP and Government Minister.  She represented Basildon from 1997-2010 and held ministerial office in Northern Ireland, DCLG and finally in the Cabinet Office when she also because a Privy Counsellor.  She was PPS to Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007-2009.


She is involved with a number of charities and voluntary sector organisations, including resolving Chaos, the Royal Voluntary Service and Basildon Women’s Aid.


Angela is married to Nigel and to relax she goes swimming, and at weekends catches up with the week’s episodes of Coronation Street