Kathryn Jane Parminter,Baroness Parminter (born 24 June 1964)[1] is a Liberal Democratlife peer,and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.
Kate Parminter is an advisor to the Every Child a Reader programme which tackles illiteracy in schools,a trustee of the IPPR think tank and is also a Patron of the Meath Epilepsy Trust.
She chaired the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals,which helped to ban hunting,between 1997 and 1998. Before this,she was an account executive at Juliette Hellman PR,a parliamentary researcher for Simon Hughes MP,and a graduate marketing trainee for The NestléCo Ltd.[4]
Political career
Parminter was a Liberal Democrat councillor on Horsham District Council in West Sussex between 1987 and 1995. In 2008 she was appointed by Nick Clegg to work on the Party's Reform Commission,which was charged with outlining a route map for the Party's future. She was a member of the Party's Federal Executive Committee,which endorsed the proposal to join the coalition government with the Conservatives in May 2010,and the Federal Finance and Administration Committee. She was offered the position three years before accepting but declined the offer as she wanted to look after her children.[5]
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