The Baroness Neville-Jones | |
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Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism | |
In office 12 May 2010 – 9 May 2011 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Lord West of Spithead |
Succeeded by | James Brokenshire |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 15 October 2007 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones 2 November 1939 Birmingham |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC (born 2 November 1939) is a British politician and former civil servant who served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) from 1993 to 1994. A member of the Conservative Party, she served on the National Security Council and was Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office from 2010 to 2011.
On 12 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her as Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office with a permanent position on the newly created National Security Council.[1]
On 9 May 2011, the BBC reported that Neville-Jones had left her role as Security Minister at "her own request";[2] her security brief was taken over by James Brokenshire.[3] She was then immediately appointed as "Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security".[4]