Angela Browning

The Right Honourable The Baroness Browning
Official portrait, 2018
Minister of State for Crime Prevention and Antisocial Behaviour Reduction
In office 1 May 2011 – 16 September 2011
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	James Brokenshire
Succeeded by	The Lord Henley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 13 July 2010
Member of Parliament forTiverton and Honiton Tiverton(1992–1997)
In office 9 April 1992 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Robin Maxwell-Hyslop
Succeeded by	Neil Parish
Shadow cabinetposts
1997–1998	Shadow Minister for Schools, Disabled People and Women
1999–2000	Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
2000–2001	Constitutional Affairs spokesperson
2000–2001	Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
2000–2001	Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Personal details
Born	Angela Pearson (1946-12-04)4 December 1946 Reading, Berkshire,England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	David Browning
Alma mater	University of West London Bournemouth University

Angela Frances Browning, Baroness Browning(néePearson;born 4 December 1946) is a BritishConservative Partypolitician.She was theMember of Parliament(MP) forTiverton and Honitonfrom 1997 to 2010, having previously been MP forTivertonfrom 1992 to 1997.

Early life

Angela Frances Pearson was born inReading, Berkshire.Her father was a lab technician at theUniversity of Reading.She was educated at the Westwood Grammar School for Girls (aGrammar School,now calledKing's Academy Prospect) onHoney End Lanein Reading,University of West London,and theBournemouth College of Technology.

She worked inadult educationas aHome Economicstutor from 1968 until 1974. She was an auxiliarynursefor a year in 1976, and was appointed as a sales and training manager withGEC Hotpointin 1977. In 1985, she became a self-employed management consultant, and also became Director of the Small Business Bureau until 1994. From 1988 to 1992, she was the chairman of Women into Business.

Political career

Browning contestedCrewe and Nantwichat the1987 general election,but was narrowly defeated by the veteranLabourMPGwyneth Dunwoodyby just 1,092 votes. She was selected for the safe Conservative seat ofTivertonfollowing the retirement ofRobin Maxwell-Hyslop,who had represented the seat for 32 years. She held the seat comfortably at the1992 general electionwith a majority of 11,089. She made hermaiden speechon 12 June 1992.

Following her election, Browning became a Member of theAgricultureSelect committeein 1992. She was appointed theParliamentary Private Secretaryto theMinister of Stateat theDepartment for Education and EmploymentMichael Forsythin 1993. Also in 1993, she became the President of theNational Autistic Society.She enteredJohn Major'sgovernment in 1994 when she became aParliamentary Under-Secretary of Stateat the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, where she remained until the Major government fell. She became a vice president of the National Alzheimer's Disease Society in 1997.

Her Tiverton seat was abolished, but she won the nomination for the newly drawnTiverton and Honitonseat which she contested at the1997 general election.She won the new seat with a sharply reduced majority of 1,653.

AfterJohn Majorresigned from the Leadership of the Conservative Party she ran theJohn Redwoodcampaign team. She was appointed as an opposition spokeswoman on Education and Employment underWilliam Hague,but she stepped down in 1998 to look after herautisticadult son, Robin. However, Hague brought her back in 1999 when she entered theShadow cabinetas theShadow Trade and IndustrySecretary, and, in 2000, was theShadow Leader of the House of Commons.Following the2001 general election,she was briefly an opposition spokesperson onConstitutional Affairs,before becoming the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party 2000–04.

In the2005 general election,Browning increased her majority to 11,051; almost the majority of the original Tiverton seat she took in 1992.

She was a Member of both the Public Accounts and Standards and Privileges Select Committees.

On 17 November 2006, Browning announced her intention not to stand as a candidate at the2010 general election.

House of Lords

On 9 July 2010, she was created alife peerasBaroness Browning,ofWhimplein theCounty of Devon,and wasintroducedin theHouse of Lordson 13 July 2010,where she sits as a Conservative.

On 11 May 2011, it was announced that Lady Browning would replace James Brokenshire as the Minister for Crime Prevention and Anti-Social Behaviour Reductionin thecoalition governmentfollowing the resignation of Lady Neville-Jones as Security Minister.Lady Browning also became the Home Office Minister of State in the House of Lords, making her the lead for all Home Office business in the Upper House.

She resigned from government on health groundson 16 September 2011, and was replaced in the Home Office byLord Henley.

She was interviewed in 2015 as part ofThe History of Parliament's oral history project.

Personal life

She married David Browning on 6 January 1968 inBournemouth.They have two sons.

External links

• Hansard1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Angela Browning
• Official Website
• ePolitix – Angela Browning MPArchived11 October 2008 at theWayback Machine
• Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Angela Browning MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com – Angela Browning MP
• Blakes Parliamentary Yearbook
• Tiverton and Honiton Conservative Association
• The Public Whip – Angela Browning MPvoting record
• BBC News Profile – Angela BrowningArchived13 February 2007 at theWayback Machine