Jane Ellison

In the 2017 general election, she lost her seat to Marsha de Cordova, who increased the Labour share of the vote by 9.1%.

In October 2017 Ellison was appointed as Deputy Director-General for Corporate Operations at the World Health Organization.

In January 2015, she announced the government was proposing introducing a ban on advertising on cigarette packaging before the next election, to some surprise amongst colleagues in the Conservative Party.

Ellison was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health in October 2013. She described providing political direction to the National Health Service (NHS) as "a bit like being on a high wire without a net at times, it can be quite exciting" in a meeting with the Tory Reform Group in 2014.

Ellison was elected at the 2010 general election, with a majority of 5,977. In Parliament, she served on the Backbench Business Committee and Work and Pensions Committee.

She was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Battersea in September 2006, following an open primary held at the Battersea Arts Centre.

A former Barnet London Borough Councillor, she contested the 1996 Barnsley East by-election and the 2000 Tottenham by-election, in both cases finishing in third place, and contested Barnsley East and Mexborough in 1997 and Pendle in the 2005 general election. Labour retained the seat, although she almost halved the majority of sitting MP Gordon Prentice from 4,275 to 2,180.

Jane Elizabeth Ellison (born 15 August 1964) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was first elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Battersea. On 7 May 2015, she was re-elected with an increased margin of 3.4%. She lost the seat to Marsha de Cordova of the Labour Party at the 2017 snap general election. As of 2018, she is Deputy Director General for Corporate Operations at the World Health Organization.