Information between 2nd February 2025 - 22nd June 2025
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5 Feb 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 182 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 302 Noes - 132 |
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5 Feb 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 187 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 130 |
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26 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill) - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 190 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 278 Noes - 165 |
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26 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill) - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 189 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 277 Noes - 172 |
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26 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill) - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 187 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 267 Noes - 151 |
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26 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill) - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 187 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 277 Noes - 162 |
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31 Mar 2025 - Mental Health Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 187 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 223 Noes - 157 |
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24 Mar 2025 - Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025 - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 126 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 139 Noes - 152 |
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2 Apr 2025 - Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 177 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 214 Noes - 216 |
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30 Apr 2025 - Armed Forces Commissioner Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 161 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 245 Noes - 157 |
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11 Jun 2025 - Armed Forces Commissioner Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Buscombe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 178 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 265 Noes - 161 |
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Baroness Buscombe speeches from: Social Care Reform
Baroness Buscombe contributed 1 speech (2 words) Thursday 22nd May 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Baroness Buscombe speeches from: Mental Health Bill [HL]
Baroness Buscombe contributed 1 speech (150 words) Report stage part one Monday 31st March 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Baroness Buscombe speeches from: Disruption at Heathrow
Baroness Buscombe contributed 2 speeches (322 words) Tuesday 25th March 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Transport |
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Universal Credit: Overpayments
Asked by: Baroness Buscombe (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 3rd February 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask His Majesty's Government what was the Universal Credit overpayment rate for the financial years (1) 2022–23, and (2) 2023–24; and how these figures compare to the forecasted rate used in the Spring Budget 2023 and Spring Budget 2024. Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) The Universal Credit (UC) overpayment rate was 12.7% of expenditure in the financial year 2022-23, and 12.4% of expenditure in the financial year 2023-24.
At Spring Budget 2023, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that the UC overpayment rate would be 12.1% in 2022/23, an underestimate of 0.6ppts from actual 2022-23 outturn (12.7%).
At Spring Budget 2024, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that the UC overpayment rate would be 13.2% in 2023/24, an overestimate of 0.7ppts from actual 2023-24 outturn (12.4%). |
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Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
Asked by: Baroness Buscombe (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 3rd February 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to page 138 of the Department of Work and Pensions Annual Report and Accounts 2023–24 (HC 62) published on 22 July 2024, what proportion of the total £9.4 billion debt stock held by Debt Management at the end of 2023–24 is deemed irrecoverable. Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
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Prescriptions
Asked by: Baroness Buscombe (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 9th June 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what is the percentage of free prescriptions in England that remain uncollected by patients and are subsequently destroyed by the NHS; and what is the average cost of uncollected and destroyed prescriptions to the Exchequer. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Department does not hold information on the number of prescriptions that are uncollected. The majority of uncollected prescriptions can be disassembled, and the medicines returned to the pharmacy’s stock, ready to be used to fill other prescriptions. |
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23 Apr 2025, 3:51 p.m. - House of Lords "Mental Health Bill. Noble Lady Baroness Buscombe is the Chair as " Baroness Merron, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Tuesday 25th February 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 1st April 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing At 10:30am: Oral evidence The Lord Timpson OBE DL - Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending at Ministry of Justice Phil Copple - Director General of Operations at HMPPS View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 25th March 2025 9:15 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 11th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 18th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 18th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing At 10:30am: Oral evidence Zak Addae-Kodua - Founder and Director at xconversation Juliana Rowan Kieron Bryan At 11:30am: Oral evidence Kate Fraser - Head of Practice at Women in Prison View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 18th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing At 10:30am: Oral evidence Zak Addae-Kodua - Founder and Director at xconversation Juliana Rowan At 11:30am: Oral evidence Katie Fraser - Head of Practice at Women in Prison View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 11th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing At 10:30am: Oral evidence Helen Berresford - Director of External Engagement at NACRO Andrew Neilson - Campaigns Director at The Howard League for Penal Reform View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 18th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing At 10:30am: Oral evidence Zak Addae-Kodua - Founder and Director at xconversation Juliana Rowan At 11:30am: Oral evidence Kate Fraser - Head of Practice at Women in Prison View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 4th March 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 29th April 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 13th May 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 20th May 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 21st May 2025 3:45 p.m. Finance Committee (Lords) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 17th June 2025 10 a.m. Finance Committee (Lords) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 10th September 2025 3:45 p.m. Finance Committee (Lords) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 17th June 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 24th June 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Work of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration At 10:30am: Oral evidence David Bolt, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration - Chief Inspector at Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 1st July 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 15th July 2025 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 8th July 2025 1:30 p.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Home Office oral evidence session At 2:00pm: Oral evidence Rt Hon Yvette Cooper - Home Secretary at Home Office View calendar - Add to calendar |