Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn

The Baroness Penn
Official portrait, 2020
Minister on Leave
In office
1 March 2024 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
InterimThe Baroness Swinburne[a]
In office
15 September 2021 – 26 January 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
InterimThe Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen[b]
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities
In office
13 November 2023 – 1 March 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byThe Baroness Swinburne
Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury
In office
26 October 2022 – 13 November 2023
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byThe Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Baroness-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
4 February 2022 – 26 October 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
In office
19 March 2020 – 15 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Lord Bethell
Succeeded byThe Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
21 October 2019
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born1985 (age 38–39)
Political partyConservative
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
Harvard Kennedy School (MPA)

Joanna Carolyn Penn, Baroness Penn (born 1985), known as JoJo Penn,[1] is a British political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting (a government whip) from March 2020 to September 2022.[2] From November 2023 to March 2024, she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.


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  1. ^ "Theresa May appoints top allies to House of Lords". POLITICO. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Parliamentary Career Page". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2022.