She also serves as a Parliamentary Secretary in HM Treasury and was executive director of the Girls' Schools Association from 2013 to 2016.

[6] She was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election.

She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Vere of Norbiton, of Norbiton in the Royal London Borough of Kingston upon Thames, on 30 August 2016.

[9] On 21 December 2016, she was appointed as a Baroness in Waiting (i.e. government whip in the House of Lords) until 29 July 2019.

[11] Following changes in the Sunak ministry, on 2 November 2022, she became minister for shipping (maritime) in the Department for Transport.