About Meg Hillier

Meg is the Labour & Co-op MP for Hackney South & Shoreditch.

First elected in 2005, Meg has been a junior Home Office Minister and Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

In 2015, Meg was elected by MPs from across both sides of the House of Commons to Chair the Public Accounts Committee. The cross-party committee scrutinises the value for money of public spending and holds the government to account for the delivery of public services. Read about the Committee here.

Meg served on The Speaker of the House of Commons' Digital Democracy Commission. Set up by the Speaker, the Commission investigated the opportunities digital technology can bring for parliamentary democracy in the UK and reported in January 2015. Read about the Commission here.

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.