Baroness Jenny Randerson 1948-2025
Tue 07 January 2025
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All of us at Zemo were very sad to learn about the death of Baroness Jenny Randerson on January 4th. Jenny was a stalwart campaigner for transport decarbonisation in the House of Lords and has been a great supporter of LowCVP/Zemo Partnership for the last decade.
As recently as last December, Jenny hosted and chaired a Parliamentary round table event to launch Zemo's Delivery Roadmap for Net Zero Transport. She was also the host of a Zemo Parliamentary reception in 2022 (see picture) and supported many other Partnership conferences, receptions and other events.
Jenny represented the Liberal Democrats in the Welsh Assembly (now the Senedd) from 1999 to 2011 and served as a minister in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000-2003 Welsh Assembly Government. She was the first female Lib Dem minister to serve anywhere in the UK. She was also acting deputy first minister from July 2001 to June 2002.
Several of her political achievements were in Wales where she was influential in introducing a cultural strategy to promote the Welsh language as well as enabling free entry to Wales's national museums and in the decision to build the Wales Millennium Centre.
After stepping down from the Assembly in 2011, she was appointed a life peer and, in the House of Lords, served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition Government.
Jenny was an effective and committed Spokesperson for Transport for the Lib Dems in the House of Lords from 2015.
Zemo Partnership's Managing Director Claire Haigh said: "Jenny has been a great champion of transport decarbonisation, and of Zemo Partnership in particular, since she took on the transport portfolio ten years ago. She was very generous with her time and always kind and supportive in her dealings with me and Partnership colleagues. She will be greatly missed by us all.
"Our condolences go to her husband, Peter, as well as her children and grandchildren."
Image: Zemo Partnership 2022
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