About Meg
Meg is the Labour & Co-op MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch.
First elected in 2005, Meg has been a junior Home Office Minister and Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
Meg has been a member of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee since 2011 and Chair since 2015. The cross-party committee scrutinises the value for money of public spending and holds the Government to account for the delivery of public services.
Before entering Parliament, Meg represented Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest on the London Assembly, was a local councillor for eight years, and was the youngest ever Mayor of Islington in 1998/99.
