Maria Colette Caulfield (born 1973) is a British politician and former Member of Parliament who sat for Lewes from 2015 to 2024. Born in London to Anglo-Irish parents, she worked for more than twenty years as an NHS nurse, latterly specialising in cancer research, and entered politics through a campaign to save local hospitals in the Brighton area. She served on Brighton and Hove City Council from 2007 to 2011 and was elected to Parliament as a Conservative at the 2015 general election. She held junior ministerial posts in the Department of Health and Social Care, among them Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety and Primary Care from 2021, Minister of State for Health in the summer of 2022, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women and for Mental Health and Women's Health Strategy from October 2022 to July 2024. She lost her seat to the Liberal Democrat James MacCleary at the 2024 general election and defected to Reform UK in September 2025.
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is a British politician and former Member of Parliament (MP)
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Maria Caulfield was born on 6 August 1973 in London, England
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she was MP for Lewes from 2015 to 2024
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She served as Minister of State for Health from July to September 2022.
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Caulfield lost her seat in the 2024 United Kingdom general election
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