| Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 12 May 2010 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Barbara Follett |
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham CBE (born 23 September 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. She has been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government since 2010,[1] 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.[2]
She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1999. In the same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris.
Hanham is also Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust and Westminster Primary Care Trust. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1984 and was awarded the CBE in 1997.