Information between 2nd July 2025 - 1st August 2025
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2 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 56 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 280 Noes - 243 |
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2 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 44 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 55 Noes - 234 |
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2 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 53 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 84 Noes - 263 |
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7 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 57 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 274 Noes - 154 |
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9 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 62 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 284 Noes - 239 |
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9 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 55 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 265 Noes - 247 |
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15 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 58 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 215 Noes - 240 |
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15 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 54 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 282 Noes - 158 |
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15 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 61 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 237 Noes - 223 |
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14 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 45 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 232 Noes - 137 |
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14 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 51 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 65 Noes - 170 |
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14 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 54 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 267 Noes - 153 |
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14 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 54 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 264 Noes - 158 |
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22 Jul 2025 - Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 - View Vote Context Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 64 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 155 Noes - 267 |
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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted speeches from: Primary Stock Exchange Listings
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted contributed 1 speech (145 words) Thursday 10th July 2025 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury |
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Water Companies
Asked by: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Wednesday 30th July 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of gearing in water and sewerage companies; how they calculate gearing for the purpose of any official or internal statistics on the insolvency risk of water and sewerage companies; and whether they use equity or assets as a denominator when making any calculation o gearing. Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) The gearing of water companies is reported by Ofwat in its annual Monitoring Financial Resilience Report. Ofwat requires companies to report gearing as net debt divided by Regulatory Capital Value.
Water companies are allowed to raise debt to fund the delivery of their services; this is normal practice across all parts of the private sector. At sensible levels, debt can be an appropriate way to fund investment for essential infrastructure over the longer term. However, we recognise some companies will need to take further steps to strengthen their financial resilience.
The Independent Water Commission has made recommendations around the financial resilience of companies. The Government’s full response to the Commission’s recommendations - including those around financial resilience - will be outlined later this year through a White Paper. The proposed reforms will then form the basis of a new water bill to modernise the entire system so that it is fit for decades to come. |
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Wednesday 9th July 2025 10 a.m. Financial Services Regulation Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Growth of private markets in the UK following reforms introduced after 2008 At 10:05am: Oral evidence Dr Narine Lalafaryan - Assistant Professor of Corporate Law at Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow at Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Professor Ludovic Phalippou - Professor of Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 16th July 2025 10 a.m. Financial Services Regulation Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Work of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - The FCA's Five-Year Strategy At 10:15am: Oral evidence Nikhil Rathi - Chief Executive at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Sarah Pritchard - Deputy Chief Executive, Executive Director for Supervision, Policy and Competition, and Executive Director for International at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Sheree Howard - Executive Director for Authorisations at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 23rd July 2025 10 a.m. Financial Services Regulation Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Growth of private markets in the UK following reforms introduced after 2008 At 10:05am: Oral evidence Nicolas Véron - Senior Fellow at Bruegel, and Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) At 11:15am: Oral evidence Professor Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. - Professor Emeritus of Law at George Washington University Law School View calendar - Add to calendar |