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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Hamwee was educated at the [[Manchester High School for Girls]], and [[Girton College, Cambridge]] where she studied law.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=170|title=School events|publisher=Manchester High School for Girls|year=2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002075052/http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=170|archive-date=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> She was a councillor in the [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]] from 1978 to 1998, as a Liberal until the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, and was made a life peer on 6 June 1991 as '''Baroness Hamwee''', of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=52557|date=11 June 1991|page=8957}}</ref>
Hamwee was educated at the [[Manchester High School for Girls]], and [[Girton College, Cambridge]], where she studied law.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=170|title=School events|publisher=Manchester High School for Girls|year=2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002075052/http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=170|archive-date=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> She was a councillor in the [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]] from 1978 to 1998, as a Liberal until the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, and was made a life peer on 6 June 1991 as '''Baroness Hamwee''', of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=52557|date=11 June 1991|page=8957}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 22:17, 17 August 2024

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Hamwee
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 June 1991
Life Peerage
Chair of the London Assembly
In office
May 2007 – May 2008
Preceded byBrian Coleman
Succeeded byJennette Arnold
In office
May 2005 – May 2006
Preceded byBrian Coleman
Succeeded byBrian Coleman
In office
February 2003 – May 2004
Preceded byTrevor Phillips
Succeeded byBrian Coleman
In office
May 2001 – May 2002
Preceded byTrevor Phillips
Succeeded byTrevor Phillips
Member of the London Assembly
as the 2nd Additional Member
In office
4 May 2000 – 1 May 2008
Preceded byAssembly created
Succeeded byAndrew Boff
Personal details
Born (1947-01-12) 12 January 1947 (age 77)
England
Political partyLiberal Democrats

Sally Rachel Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee (born 12 January 1947) is a Liberal Democrat politician and their Lead Home Affairs Spokesperson in the House of Lords. She is a Life Peer and former chair of the London Assembly.

Biography

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Hamwee was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls, and Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied law.[1] She was a councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1978 to 1998, as a Liberal until the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, and was made a life peer on 6 June 1991 as Baroness Hamwee, of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.[2]

London Assembly

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When the London Assembly was established in 2000, a written agreement with the Labour Party saw Sally Hamwee and Trevor Phillips agreeing to share responsibility for chairing the Assembly in its first term. Trevor Phillips took the Chair in 2000, passing it over to Hamwee in May 2001. Phillips chaired the Assembly from May 2002 to September 2002, but when Trevor Phillips stood down from the Assembly to take up chairmanship of the Commission for Racial Equality, Hamwee stepped in and chaired the Assembly until the June 2004 GLA elections. [citation needed]

The results of those elections saw the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats enter into a similar agreement as existed between Labour and Lib Dems previously. This agreement resulted in Sally Hamwee chairing the London Assembly between May 2005 and May 2006, and for the final year of this term from May 2007. As part of the agreement when not chairing the Assembly she chaired the Business Management and Appointments Committee. She stood down from the London Assembly in May 2008.

House of Lords

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Hamwee was appointed a Life Peer in 1991. Since April 2021 she has chaired the Justice and Home Affairs Select Committee.[3] Other committees on which she has sat include European Union Select Committee, Joint Committee on Human Rights, EU Justice Sub-Committee, EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee, Central / Local Government Relations Select Committee, Economic Affairs Select Committee and Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. She has also sat on committees examining adoption legislation, the Inquiries Act 2005 and the Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill.[4]

She was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson in the Lords on Home Affairs 2009-2021, spokesperson on Immigration 2017-2021 and spokesperson on Local Government (Local Government; Environment, Transport and Regions; Communities and Local Government) 1991-2009.

Other public and third sector roles

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Hamwee has been a Trustee of the Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames since 2009, and a Trustee of Safer London – which aims to give young people the opportunity to live free from exposure to gangs, exploitation and crime – since 2014. She is also on the advisory board of Missing People, a Patron of PAC-UK post-adoption services and a Vice-President of the Town and Country Planning Association.

Previous positions include Chair of Refuge domestic violence charity, President of the Town and Country Planning Association, Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, board member of Parents for Children adoption agency and legal adviser to The Simon Community homelessness charity.

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Hamwee was admitted as a solicitor in 1972 and was a Partner at Clintons solicitors in London 1984-2000, specialising in media and entertainment law.

References

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  1. ^ "School events". Manchester High School for Girls. 2011. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011.
  2. ^ "No. 52557". The London Gazette. 11 June 1991. p. 8957.
  3. ^ "Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Summary - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary career for Baroness Hamwee - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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