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Biography
Judith Ann Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox (born 31 October 1940) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. From May 2010 to September 2012 she had been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
She used to run a family business in Devon and was chair of the National Consumer Council from 1990 to 1996. On 16 January 1996, she was made a life peer as Baroness Wilcox, of Plymouth in the County of Devon. Between 1997 and 2006 she held a non-executive director position on the board of Cadbury Schweppes.
Baroness Wilcox was Chair of Trustees of the Community of St Mary the Virgin, one of the oldest surviving Religious Communities in the Church of England between 2012 and 2017.
Expenses
In July 2015 Wilcox was criticised for claiming £300 a day in House of Lords attendance allowances, £74,400 over two years, even though she could walk there from her house only two hundred yards away.