Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma,
49, was born in Amritsar in Punjab, India on
1959.
She is a British businesswoman,
member of the House of Lords and currently Opposition
Whip and Opposition Spokesperson for Education
and Skills and for Health. In 2006 Baroness
Verma was made a Patron of the Tory Reform Group
She moved as child with her parents
to England in 1960. She was created a Conservative
life peer as Baroness Verma, of Leicester in
the County of Leicestershire in May 2006, having
been an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate
in two general elections (2001 and 2005). Since
1977, Baroness Verma has been married to Ashok
Verma. They have a daughter and a son.
