Bio:
Before her election Anne was a trained nurse and worked in the NHS for 25 years. Anne became involved with politics in the early 1990s being a borough councillor for five years in Surrey. In Parliament Anne was appointed to the Health Select Committee in 2005 until she was made Shadow Minister for Tourism, Gambling and Licensing. She was appointed Shadow Minister for Health in 2007 and in 2010 she was made Minister for Public Health in the new coalition government.