Angela Smith

Angela Smith is a former MP for Basildon and minister for the third sector.  She held the latter role from June 2009 until losing her seat in Parliament in the May 2010 general election.

Smith’s tenure as charities minister will mostly be remembered for scrapping the £750,000 Campaign Research Programme after charities had applied and been interviewed, a decision which was in breach of the Compact.

Her previous post was as the Prime Minister’s parliamentary private secretary, while she had also held positions as under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government and under-secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Between 1997 and 1999 she was an officer for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Charities and the Voluntary Sector.

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