Jane Ramsey, Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath

The Right Honourable The Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 March 2024 Life peerage
Personal details
Born	Jane Ramsey
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Jonathan Slater ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	3
Occupation	Health adviser

Jane Ramsey, Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath, is a British politician and health adviser. She chairs the board of trustees of the national charity Young Epilepsy, and was a senior adviser on standards and ethics to the Labour Party and a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Ramsey has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.

Career

Originally training as a barrister, Ramsey was the chair of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2012 to 2016, and previously the vice chair of University College London Hospitals. She has also served on the council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Department of Health's Audit and Risk Committee, chaired a local housing association, and served as head of law for two London boroughs. She has chaired the board of trustees of the national epilepsy charity Young Epilepsy since October 2016.[1][2]

From 2016 to 2020, Ramsey was an independent member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.[3] Following the publication in 2020 of a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into antisemitism in the Labour Party, she was appointed to establish a new independent complaints process for the party.[4]

Ramsey was nominated for a life peerage by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer[5][6][7] and was created Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath, of Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, on 13 March 2024.[8] She was introduced to the House of Lords on 19 March.[9]

Personal life

In 2001, Ramsey married Jonathan Slater, a British civil servant who was the permanent secretary of the Department for Education from 2016 to 2020. They have two sons and one daughter.[10][11][12]

She has written about health and education issues relating to autism and epilepsy, as well as in support of transgender rights in the United Kingdom and LGBT inclusivity in schools.[4]

References

1. "Our Board of Trustees". Young Epilepsy. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
2. "Peerage for Jane Ramsey". Young Epilepsy. 13 February 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
3. "Jane Ramsey resigns from the Committee on Standards in Public Life". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
4. Rodgers, Sienna (27 November 2020). "Labour appoints Jane Ramsey to lead on new independent complaints process". LabourList. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
5. "Conservative donors and 27-year-old among new life peers". BBC News. 10 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
6. Walker, Peter (9 February 2024). "Major Tory donor among 13 new peers named in honours list". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
7. "Political Peerages 2024". GOV.UK. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
8. "No. 64348". The London Gazette. 19 March 2024. p. 5510.
9. "Introduction: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 837. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 19 March 2024. col. 87.
10. "Slater, Jonathan". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2023. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U250380. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. CSPL Secretariat (19 April 2018). "Minutes". Committee on Standards in Public Life. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
12. Stewart, Heather; Weale, Sally (26 August 2020). "Top DfE civil servant Jonathan Slater to step down after exams row". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 April 2024.