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Baroness Kay Andrews  OBE

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

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• Biography

Responsibilities

• Departmental business in the House of Lords
• responsibility for departmental contribution to the Respect agenda
• support on Supporting People (including individual budgets)
• support on neighbourhood renewal and tackling disadvantage (including neighbourhood renewal fund; new deal for communities; LEGI)
• liveability
• planning casework
• planning inspectorate sponsor
• Ordnance Survey (client minister)
• disabled facilities grant
• national strategy for an ageing society
• third sector strategy
• supporting on community engagement and empowerment; Quirk review
• digital inclusion
• champion minister for culture and regeneration
• heritage

Biography

(Elizabeth) Kay Andrews, OBE Baroness Andrews of Southover (2000), was re-appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government in June 2007. She was first appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department in May 2005.

Before being appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary, Baroness Andrews was a Government Whip and Spokesperson in the House of Lords for Health, Work and Pensions, and Education and Skills (2003-2005).

Before being raised to the peerage, Baroness Andrews was a Fellow of the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University 1968 - 70; Parliamentary Clerk in the House of Commons 1970 - 85; and Policy Adviser to Neil Kinnock as Leader of the Opposition 1985 - 92. From 1992 - 2002, Baroness Andrews was the Founder and Director of Education Extra, the national charity for out of school learning and activities. She received the OBE in 1998 for her work in education.

She was educated at Lewis School for Girls, Hengoed, Ystrad Mynach and went on to study International Politics at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. At Sussex she took an MA in Political Sociology and subsequently a DPhil in History and Social Studies of Science.

She has written books and articles on the history and organisation of science and technology policy, on poverty and social policy, and on education.