Caroline Spelman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Caroline Spelman
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 4, 1958(1958-05-04)
Age	66
Birthplace	Bishop's Stortford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Caroline Spelman Biography

Caroline Spelman is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 4, 1958 in Bishop's Stortford, England, United Kingdom. Dame Caroline Alice Spelman, DBE (nee Cormack) was a British Conservative Party politician. She served as Member of Parliament (MP), for Meriden in West Midlands between 1997 and 2019. She was Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs within David Cameron’s coalition cabinet from May 2010 to September 2012. She was sworn in as a Privy Councillor on 13 May 2010.

Iain Duncan Smith named Spelman Shadow Secretary for State for International Development in 2001. This post was held until Duncan Smith’s departure from the Conservative Party leadership. Michael Howard, Duncan Smith’s successor, chose a more streamlined Shadow Cabinet, and left out Spelman. However, he later named her to be a front bench spokesperson on Environmental Affairs for Theresa May. Spelman, who succeeded David Curry in March 2004, re-entered Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary for Local and Devolved Governance Affairs. She was elevated to the position of Conservative Party Chairman in 2007 under David Cameron’s leadership.

In March 2009, the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee ruled that Caroline Spelman had misused her allowances to pay for nannying work in 1997 and 1998.

In 2009, during the expenses scandal it was reported that Spelman had received £40,000 for cleaning and bills for her constituency home; this was despite her husband claiming it was their main home. In 2008 she reportedly over-claimed hundreds of pounds towards her council tax.

She was unsuccessfully represented the Bassetlaw constituency of Nottinghamshire in 1992’s general election before she entered Parliament in 1997.

Caroline Spelman Net Worth

Caroline Spelman is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Caroline Spelman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1981 to 1984, she was the Sugar Beet commodity secretary of the National Farmers’ Union. From 1984 to 9, she was the deputy director of International Confederation of European Beet Growers. She was then a research fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, part of the University of Kent. It is now known as the Centre for European Agri-Environmental Economics. Spelman, Cormack & Associates, a lobbying company for the food and biotechnology industries, is her co-owner.

On 25 April 1987, she married Mark Spelman (a senior partner at Accenture), in south-east Kent. In the 2009 European elections, her husband was a Conservative candidate for the West Midlands region. Two sons and one daughter were born to them. Spelman was 1997 the Conservative MP who was also a mother to school-aged children. The Conservative party required that her children be educated in her constituency before she was elected as MP. Spelman was unable to see her children, and this made her very stressed. She also lost a lot of weight.

On 6 June 2008, Spelman was the subject of controversy when it was suggested that for around twelve months from May 1997 she paid her child’s nanny, Tina Haynes, from her parliamentary staffing allowance, contrary to the rule governing such allowances and fears of the misuse of them. Spelman claims that her nanny also acted as her constituency secretary and was paid from the public taxpayers’ purse for this aspect of her further employment. Haynes confirms that occasionally she would answer phone calls and post documents but initially she denied such happenings when interviewed on BBC Two’s Newsnight via telephone. The accusations came at a time when Conservative Party leader David Cameron had tasked Spelman with reviewing the use of parliamentary allowances by Conservative MPs and MEPs in the wake of the Derek Conway affair.

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Caroline Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Caroline Spelman celebrates birthday on May 4 of every year.