Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham

Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, CBE (née Spark; born 23 September 1939) is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Hanham
CBE
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office
12 May 2010  7 October 2013
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byThe Lord McKenzie of Luton
Succeeded byThe Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
27 July 1999  22 July 2020
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Joan Brownlow Spark

(1939-09-23) 23 September 1939
United Kingdom
Political partyConservative
SpouseIan (or Iain) William Fergusson Hanham (m. 1964)

She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2013, and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1989. She was succeeded by Cllr Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000.

She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 15 July 1999. That same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris. She retired from the House of Lords on 22 July 2020.

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