Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee

Fact title	Fact data
Professional Field	Politics and policy
Born	8 September 1944
Place of Birth	Egypt
Education	Bromley High School; Oxford High School; LSE

Margaret Hodge has been Chairman of Public Accounts since June 2010. She has been MP for Barking since 1994.

She worked in market research and consultancy before being elected as councillor for the London Borough of Islington in 1973. She was a co-nominator for Tony Blair's bid for leadership of the Labour Party and joined his government in 1998, becoming the first Minister for Children in 2003. She continued to serve as a junior minister under Gordon Brown before her return to the backbenches.