Lilian Greenwood
Lilian Greenwood | |||||||||||||||||||
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Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Transport | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 16 September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Simon Lightwood | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 7 September 2025 – 16 September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Samantha Dixon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Nic Dakin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future of Roads | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 July 2024 – 7 September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Guy Opperman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Simon Lightwood | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of the Finance Committee | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 29 January 2020 – 25 May 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Chris Bryant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Nick Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of the Transport Committee | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 13 July 2017 – 29 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Louise Ellman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Huw Merriman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Nottingham South | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Alan Simpson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 10,294 (31.3%) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Lilian Rachel Greenwood 26 March 1966 Bolton, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||
Lilian Rachel Greenwood (born 26 March 1966) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham South since 2010, and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Transport since September 2025.
A former union official, she served as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet from 2015 until her resignation in 2016, and as a shadow transport minister under opposition leader Ed Miliband from 2011 to 2015. On the back benches, Greenwood chaired the Transport Select Committee from 2017 to 2020, and the Commons Finance Committee from 2020 to 2021. She served as the Opposition Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons between 2021 and 2023, the Shadow Minister for Arts, Heritage and Civil Society from 2023 until 2024, and in Keir Starmer's government, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future of Roads from 2024 to 2025.