Claire Ward
Responsibilities
- Criminal Justice Group (offender management strategy – joint with Maria Eagle)
- Office for Criminal Justice Reform (joint with Home Office ministers and the Attorney General) and sponsorship of Criminal Cases Review Commission and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
- Criminal Justice System Volunteering Ministerial Champion
- ID card implementation
- Tackling Knives Action Programme
- National Crime Reduction Board – representing the Ministry of Justice – and London Local Criminal Justice Board
- NOMS operational policy and casework
- Independent Monitoring Board (appointments, transfers, reports etc)
- Mental Health (including Bradley implementation)
- public protection
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons reports
- NOMS compensation claims
- NOMS freedom of information
- safer custody
Biography
Claire Ward MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State on 9 June 2009. She previously served in the Whips’ Office as Vice Chamberlain of Her Majesty’s Household and Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury. She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for the NHS (2001-05) and a member of the select committee for Culture, Media and Sport.
Elected Member of Parliament for Watford in 1997, Claire Ward was mayor of Boreham Wood and served as a councillor for Elstree and Boreham Wood Town Council from 1994.
Education
LLB from the University of Hertfordshire.
Masters in Britain and the European Union from Brunel University.
Qualified as a solicitor.
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