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About Meg Hillier

Meg Hillier was elected Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch in 2005. She is currently a junior minister at the Home Office.

Meg was a local councillor for eight years, and was the youngest ever Mayor of Islington in 1998/99. She was elected to the London Assembly to represent Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest in 2000. She stood down at the 10 June 2004 election after her selection as the Parliamentary candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch.

Meg chaired the London Assembly’s Culture, Sport and Tourism committee. This committee monitored the Mayor’s work in these areas and was the London watchdog on sports and culture issues. She produced a report on the future of football in London. She also led the Assembly’s cross party work on London Weighting.

She is vice chair of the charity War Memorials Trust.

Meg, a former journalist, has worked in and campaigned on housing issues for a decade and chaired the London Assembly’s inquiry into housing for key workers in 2000.

Transport is one of her key priorities – she has championed new buses coming to Hackney including the Shoreditch Hoppa (394) and 388 routes.

Meg has been campaigning to make sure that local creative organisations, businesses and Hackney residents benefit from the business and job opportunities which the Olympics will open up for Hackney. Meg has also worked to highlight inequalities in mental health.