Elizabeth Kay Andrews
Elizabeth Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews OBE (born 16th May 1943) is a British Labour politician. She worked as a Library Clerk-Senior Researcher in the House of Commons Library from 1970 to 1985. Then she became a policy adviser to Neil Kinnock whilst he was Leader of the Opposition.
Political Career[edit]
Elizabeth Andrews was created a life peer as Baroness Andrews, of Southover in the County of East Sussex in 2000. In the House of Lords, she served as a Government Whip from 2002 and she was appointed Government Spokesperson for Education and Skills, Health, and Work and Pensions until 2005. She was then appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Notable Work[edit]
Her political interests are education and social policy, international development, cultural policy. From 1992 until 2002, Baroness Andrews served as Founder and Director of Education Extra, the national charity for out of school learning and activities. She was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1998 for her work in education. She stood down from Government in 2009 and the same year she was appointed first woman chair of English Heritage, which is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. English Heritage manages the historic environment of England and advises the relevant Secretary of State on policy and in individual cases such as registering listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments. Elizabeth Andrews is also consultant on culture and heritage to the Welsh government.
