Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dame Sheila Valerie Masters Noakes, Baroness Noakes DBE (born June 23, 1949) is a British Conservative politician and former corporate executive.
She is currently the Opposition spokesperson for the Treasury and for Work and Pensions. In January 2006 she moved, with Lord Phillips, an amendment to the Blair government's proposed identification card scheme which led to the scheme being defeated in the House of Lords and sent back to House of Commons.
Baroness Noakes is a co-director of the Reuters Founders Share Company ([1]) and has been a partner at KPMG.
She was made a Dame in 1996, and made a life peer as Baroness Noakes, of Goudhurst in the County of Kent in 2000.
