Philippa Marion Roe, Baroness Couttie (25 September 1962 – 12 December 2022) was a British Conservative politician, who served as Leader of Westminster City Council from 2012 to 2017.
In May 2010, Roe was re-elected as a councillor, and in June that year, she stated her support for the new coalition government's decision to cap housing benefit at £400 a week.
The next year she succeeded Colin Barrow as Leader of the council, beating Edward Argar for the nomination,[9] and quickly distanced herself from a comparison with a predecessor, Dame Shirley Porter.
[12] In 2013, she was quoted as saying that "local people know best"[13] and that "The funding challenge is an opportunity to break free of orthodoxy and review all the services provided and how they can be delivered more efficiently.
[17][18] Roe was nominated for a life peerage in David Cameron's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Couttie, of Downe in the County of Kent, on 5 September 2016.