Elizabeth Gardiner CB |
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First Parliamentary Counsel | |
Assumed office 24 November 2015 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Richard Heaton |
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Born | March 19, 1966 |
Nationality | British |
Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner CB (born 19 March 1966) is a solicitor and senior British civil servant who has served as the First Parliamentary Counsel since November 2015.
Gardiner has worked at the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel since 1991, and as a director-general-graded Parliamentary Counsel from 2003 until her promotion in 2015, where she succeeded Richard Heaton. As of September 2015, as a Director-General Gardiner was paid a salary of between £175,000 and £179,999, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
Gardiner was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2013.