Lilian Greenwood | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future of Roads | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Guy Opperman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of theFinance Committee | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 29 January 2020 – 25 May 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Chris Bryant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Nick Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of theTransport Committee | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 13 July 2017 – 29 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Louise Ellman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Huw Merriman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of Parliament forNottingham South | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Alan Simpson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 10,294 (31.3%) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Lilian Rachel Greenwood (1966-03-26)26 March 1966 (age 59) Bolton,Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||
Lilian Rachel Greenwood (born 26 March 1966)[1][2] is a BritishLabour Party politician who has served as theMember of Parliament (MP) forNottingham South since2010, and theParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future of Roads since July 2024.[3]
A former union official, she served as theShadow Secretary of State for Transport inJeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet from 2015 until her resignation in 2016, and as a shadow transport minister under opposition leaderEd Miliband from 2011 to 2015. On the back benches, Greenwood chaired theTransport Select Committee from 2017 to 2020, and theCommons Finance Committee from 2020 to 2021. She served as the Opposition DeputyChief Whip of theHouse of Commons between 2021 and 2023, and the Shadow Minister for Arts, Heritage and Civil Society from 2023 until 2024.
Greenwood was born on the 26 March 1966 inBolton, Lancashire.[4] She attendedCanon Slade School, a local Church of England state secondary school, before attendingSt. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Moving toSouthwell, Nottinghamshire in 1999,[5] Greenwood worked in the county forUnison, the public sector trade union, for 17 years.[6]
Greenwood was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the2010 general election after the incumbent Labour MP,Alan Simpson, announced in 2007 that he would not stand for re-election.[7] She was elected as the MP with 37.3% of the vote, a margin of 4.4% over her closest rival.[8]
Shortly after her election, she joined theTransport Select Committee,[9] and was subsequently appointed as an assistant oppositionwhip. In late September 2011, she was promoted by Labour leaderEd Miliband to the role of Shadow Minister for Rail, a position she held until her re-election in the2015 general election.
Following the election ofJeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, on 14 September 2015 she was promoted to theShadow cabinet as theShadow Secretary of State for Transport.[10]
Greenwood resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in the aftermath of the2016 EU referendum,along with dozens of her colleagues, in protest against what she saw asJeremy Corbyn's weak leadership.[11][12] She supportedOwen Smith in the failed attempt to replaceJeremy Corbyn in the2016 Labour Party leadership election.[13]
As a backbencher, Greenwood has chaired theTransport Select Committee and theCommons Finance Committee, and sat on theLiaison Committee,Education Select Committee andRegulatory Reform Committee.[14]
She was re-elected at the2017 and2019 General Elections, and backedLisa Nandy in the2020 Labour Party leadership election.[15]
Greenwood returned to the opposition front bench in May 2021, when she was appointed by Labour leaderKeir Starmer as the Opposition DeputyChief Whip of theHouse of Commons for legislation, succeeding Alan Campbell following his promotion to Chief Whip.[16]
Greenwood is a member ofLabour Friends of Israel.[17]
Greenwood is married with three children.[4]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forNottingham South 2010–present | Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | Shadow Secretary of State for Transport 2015–2016 | Succeeded by |
