Dee Doocey

The Baroness Doocey OBE


Liberal Democrat peer
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 December 2010
Member of the London Assembly for the Liberal Democrats (London-wide)
In office 4 May 2000 – 3 May 2012
Preceded by	Assembly Created
Succeeded by	Stephen Knight
Personal details
Born	Elizabeth Deirdre O'Keefe (1948-05-02) 2 May 1948 Drumcondra, County Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Democrats
Spouse(s)	Jim Doocey; 1 child
Children	Mark Doocey

Elizabeth Doocey, Baroness Doocey OBE (née O'Keefe; born 2 May 1948^[1]), best known as Dee Doocey, is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businesswoman. A former Chair of the London Assembly, she was created a life peer in 2010 and is now the inaugural Chair of the House of Lords Finance Committee.

Personal life

Born Elizabeth Deirdre O'Keefe in Drumcondra, Dublin, she married Jim Doocey and they have one son, Mark.

Peerage

Dee Doocey was created a life peer on 21 December 2010, as Baroness Doocey, and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.^[2] In 2016, the House of Lords appointed her as the inaugural chair of its new Finance Committee. The Committee controls the House of Lords’ internal budgets, commissioning the House’s annual financial plan and monitoring expenditure. As Chair of the Committee, Baroness Doocey is a member of the House of Lords Commission, which provides high-level strategic and political direction for the House Administration. The Commission and the Finance Committee arose from recommendations of the Lords Leader’s Group on Governance, of which Baroness Doocey was a member.

During the 2010-2015 Parliament, she was the Coalition Government’s representative on the Criminal Justice Board. She was also a member of the Joint Committee on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill [1], which comprised members of both the House of Commons and House of Lords, and which took written and oral evidence and made recommendations in a report to both Houses. She was a member of the House of Lords Refreshment Committee 2012 to 2015. In 2012, she was a member of the Draft Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill (Joint Committee).

London politics

Doocey was a member of the London Assembly from 2004-12. She was originally elected as the fifth person on the Liberal Democrat party list, as a London-wide member of the Assembly. She was re-elected for a second term in 2008 but did not contest the 2012 election. She was Chair of the London Assembly from 2010–11, and Deputy Chair from 2011-12. From 2004 to 2010 and again from 2011–12, she was chair of the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport & Tourism Committee (renamed the Economy, Culture and Sport Committee in May 2011), which was the lead Committee monitoring preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

From 2005-12, Doocey was a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, which oversaw the Metropolitan Police. She chaired the MPA's Finance & Resources Committee from 2011 to 2012, and also chaired the MPA's Olympic & Paralympic sub-committee. She represented the Mayor of London on the Home Office Olympic Security Board from 2008-12.

Early political and business career

Prior to her election to the London Assembly, she ran a management consulting business, DD Enterprises. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dee Doocey was the Director of Finance at Liberal Party headquarters. She served as a Liberal councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1986 to 1994, and was chair of the council's Housing Committee. She served as election agent for Vince Cable in her home constituency of Twickenham from 1992-2015. ^[3][4]

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Current Liberal Democrat peers

Hereditary peers	Addington Glasgow Oxford & Asquith Thurso

Life peers	Alderdice Allan of Hallam Alliance Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville Barker Beith Benjamin Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury Bowles of Berkhamsted Bradshaw Brinton Bruce of Bennachie Burnett Burt of Solihull Campbell of Pittenweem Carlile of Berriew Chidgey Clement-Jones Cotter Dholakia Doocey Falkner of Margravine Fearn Featherstone Foster of Bath Fox Garden of Frognal German Goddard of Stockport Greaves Grender Hamwee Harris of Richmond Humphreys Hussain Hussein-Ece Janke Jolly Jones of Cheltenham Kirkwood of Kirkhope Kramer Lee of Trafford Lester of Herne Hill Loomba Macdonald of River Glaven Maclennan of Rogart Maddock Mar & Kellie Marks of Henley-on-Thames McNally Miller of Chilthorne Domer Newby Northover Oates Paddick Palmer of Childs Hill Palumbo of Shouthwark Parminter Pinnock Purvis Randerson Razzall Redesdale Rennard Roberts of Llandudno Rodgers of Quarry Bank Scott of Needham Market Scriven Sharkey Sheehan Shipley Shutt of Greetland Smith of Clifton Smith of Newnham Steel of Aikwood Stephen Stoneham of Droxford Storey Strasburger Stunell Suttie Taverne Taylor of Goss Moor Teverson Thomas of Gresford Thomas of Winchester Thornhill Tope Tyler Tyler of Enfield Vallance of Tummel Verjee Wallace of Saltaire Wallace of Tankerness Walmsley Watson of Richmond Willis of Knaresborough Wrigglesworth

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