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Jane Antoinette Scott, Baroness Scott of Bybrook, (born 13 June 1947) is a British
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politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Housing and Faith from September 2022 to July 2024. She is a member of the
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and was a government whip from 2020 to 2022. She was leader of
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between 2003 and 2009 and then of its successor the
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from June 2009 until July 2019, when she stood down, also retiring as a
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in February 2020.


Early life

Born on 13 June 1947, Scott was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary High School in
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, Brent, London, and then took a diploma in dairying at the Lancashire College of Agriculture, later renamed as
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.Peter Hetherington
Leader of Wiltshire Council
in ''
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'' dated 28 May 2013, online at the guardian.com, accessed 16 November 2014.


Career

After college, Scott worked in the dairy industry, on farms and also in
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work, marketing and lecturing.Wiltshire County Council, Clerk's Department
page at nationalarchives.gov.uk
She moved to
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in the 1990s and in 1995 was elected to
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District Council. Two years later, she was elected to
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, and in 2001 became chairman of its Education Committee, then cabinet member for children, education and libraries, and finally Leader in 2003.PR 1220 Wiltshire County Council elects a new leader (Tuesday 15 July 2003)
at wiltshire.gov.uk
Mrs Jane Scott
at northwilts-communityweb.com
In the county council, she represented the Kington division, and in the district council Kington St Michael.Cllr Jane Scott
at northwiltsconservatives.com
When chosen to lead Wiltshire County Council in 2003, Scott said: "Being elected leader of the council is a great honour and I intend to devote all of my time and energies to my new responsibilities." For some years, she was a member of the
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's General Assembly and for a time her name was on the Conservative Party 'A' List of parliamentary candidates. As leader of the county council, from 2007 she successfully argued for a
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for Wiltshire, which would mean the demise of the county's four existing District Councils, facing determined opposition from leading Conservatives, including
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and
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. In 2009, in the first elections to a new
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, the unitary authority created by merging the county and its districts, she was elected for a new division called "By Brook". This includes the parishes of Biddestone (with Slaughterford),
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, Hullavington,
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, Nettleton, North Wraxall, and Yatton Keynell. The Conservatives won 62 of the 98 seats available, and a few days later Scott was elected as the first Leader of the new unitary authority. Scott was appointed OBE in the
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for services to local government. On 27 August 2015 it was announced that on the nomination of
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she was to be created a
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, giving her a seat in the
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. She was created Baroness Scott of Bybrook, of Upper Wraxall in the County of Wiltshire, on the afternoon of 8 October. The title refers to the Bybrook River, after which Scott's electoral division of Wiltshire was named. She was a member of the National Youth Agency and the Wiltshire and Swindon Learning Skills Council. chair of the Wiltshire Strategic Board, and a
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Inspector for
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. In May 2019, Scott announced that she was standing down as Leader of Wiltshire Council with effect from July, and on 10 July 2019, Phillip Whitehead took over from her. She resigned as a councillor in February 2020, and in March Nick Botterill, a former Leader of the
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was selected as the new Conservative candidate for By Brook. He was elected at the 2021 elections. Baroness Scott of Bybrook piloted many key government Bills in the 2022-23 Session of
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, including the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, and the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, and was the Government spokesperson on a number of successful Private Members' Bills in that Session.


Private life

In 1986 Scott married Ronald J. Scott, an executive of the
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. They had three children, and until 2013 lived near
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on a livestock farm. After a severe fall from a horse in the 1980s, she took up breeding Caspian horses, and in 1999 her occupation was "horse stud owner". She and her daughter Fleur, a vet, have been active members of the Caspian Breed Society.Jane Antoinette Scott
at checkcompany.co.uk, accessed 26 July 2016


See also

* 1997 Wiltshire County Council election * 2001 Wiltshire County Council election * 2005 Wiltshire County Council election *
2009 Wiltshire Council election Elections to Wiltshire Council, a new unitary authority, were held on 4 June 2009. The whole council of ninety-eight members was up for election, with each member to be elected in a single-member electoral division. None of the new electoral ...
* 2013 Wiltshire Council election * 2017 Wiltshire Council election


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Baroness Scott of Bybrook
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