Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma (born 1959) is a British businesswoman, member of the House of Lords and currently a Government Whip and Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, International Development and Equalities and Women's Issues.[1] Until the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition following the May 2010 general election she had been an Opposition Whip and Spokesperson for Education and Skills and for Health. In 2006 Lady Verma was made a Patron of the Tory Reform Group
Born in Amritsar in Punjab, India she moved as a child with her parents to England in 1960. She was created a Conservative life peer as Baroness Verma, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire in May 2006,[2] having been an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in two general elections (2001 and 2005). Since 1977, Lady Verma has been married to Ashok Verma. They have a daughter and a son.