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Wednesday 18th June 2025 Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Conservative - Life peer) Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: Foreign care worker visas and the number of care workers across the United Kingdom View calendar - Add to calendar |
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2 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 249 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 280 Noes - 243 |
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2 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 82 Conservative No votes vs 23 Conservative Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 84 Noes - 263 |
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2 Jun 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 96 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 242 Noes - 116 |
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4 Jun 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 84 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 221 Noes - 116 |
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Social Services: Vacancies
Asked by: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Conservative - Life peer) Friday 20th June 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of closing social care visas for carers from overseas on vacancies in the care workforce. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) As set out in the Immigration White Paper, visa extensions and in-country switching for those already in the country with working rights will be permitted for a transition period until 2028. This will be kept under review. Care workers are essential to those who draw on care and support, helping them to maintain their quality of life, independence and connection to the things that matter to them. In England, as per the Care Act 2014, it is the responsibility of local government to develop a market that delivers a wide range of sustainable high-quality care and support services, that will be available to their communities. English local authorities have responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to meet social care needs and statutory guidance directs them to ensure there is sufficient workforce in adult social care. The care worker route has seen unacceptable levels of abuse and exploitation, between July 2022 and December 2024 the Home Office revoked over 470 sponsor licences, impacting around 40,000 workers in the care sector. The Department of Health and Social Care is providing up to £12.5 million to regional partnerships in 2025/26 to respond to unethical international recruitment practices in the adult social care sector. This includes supporting international recruits impacted by sponsor licence revocations to find alternative employment. In the technical annex published alongside the Immigration White Paper on 12 May 2025, the Home Office has estimated an annual reduction of approximately 7,000 main visa applicants as a result of ending overseas recruitment for care workers and senior care workers. This is based on their internal management information for entry visas granted covering the period March 2024 to February 2025. This estimate reflects that there was a drop in visa grants of more than 90% compared with the 12 months ending in March 2024. This analysis will be refined and included within the relevant Impact Assessments accompanying the rule changes, as appropriate. The Department of Health and Social Care continues to monitor adult social care workforce capacity, bringing together national data sets from Skills for Care’s monthly tracking data, the Capacity Tracker tool and intelligence from key sector partners. The Department of Health and Social Care primarily uses filled posts as the most accurate measure of adult social care workforce capacity rather than number of vacancies. As vacancies are the total number of posts advertised by the adult social care sector’s independent and competing providers, they don’t necessarily reflect the number of workers required to meet adult social care needs. Vacancies are ultimately impacted by other factors such as providers’ ambitions to grow and are not necessarily a good indicator of capacity pressures as a result. |
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Social Services: Migrant Workers
Asked by: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Conservative - Life peer) Friday 20th June 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the discontinuation of care worker visas on care provision. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) As set out in the Immigration White Paper, visa extensions and in-country switching for those already in the country with working rights will be permitted for a transition period until 2028. This will be kept under review. Care workers are essential to those who draw on care and support, helping them to maintain their quality of life, independence and connection to the things that matter to them. In England, as per the Care Act 2014, it is the responsibility of local government to develop a market that delivers a wide range of sustainable high-quality care and support services, that will be available to their communities. English local authorities have responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to meet social care needs and statutory guidance directs them to ensure there is sufficient workforce in adult social care. The care worker route has seen unacceptable levels of abuse and exploitation, between July 2022 and December 2024 the Home Office revoked over 470 sponsor licences, impacting around 40,000 workers in the care sector. The Department of Health and Social Care is providing up to £12.5 million to regional partnerships in 2025/26 to respond to unethical international recruitment practices in the adult social care sector. This includes supporting international recruits impacted by sponsor licence revocations to find alternative employment. In the technical annex published alongside the Immigration White Paper on 12 May 2025, the Home Office has estimated an annual reduction of approximately 7,000 main visa applicants as a result of ending overseas recruitment for care workers and senior care workers. This is based on their internal management information for entry visas granted covering the period March 2024 to February 2025. This estimate reflects that there was a drop in visa grants of more than 90% compared with the 12 months ending in March 2024. This analysis will be refined and included within the relevant Impact Assessments accompanying the rule changes, as appropriate. The Department of Health and Social Care continues to monitor adult social care workforce capacity, bringing together national data sets from Skills for Care’s monthly tracking data, the Capacity Tracker tool and intelligence from key sector partners. The Department of Health and Social Care primarily uses filled posts as the most accurate measure of adult social care workforce capacity rather than number of vacancies. As vacancies are the total number of posts advertised by the adult social care sector’s independent and competing providers, they don’t necessarily reflect the number of workers required to meet adult social care needs. Vacancies are ultimately impacted by other factors such as providers’ ambitions to grow and are not necessarily a good indicator of capacity pressures as a result. |
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Defence Procurement: Small Businesses
Asked by: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 3rd June 2025 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the recently announced support hub for small businesses on accessing the defence supply chain will be adequately resourced, appropriately led, and fully integrated into existing defence innovation structures and procurement frameworks. Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) In March 2025 the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence announced new support to help SMEs access the Defence supply chain and ensure they benefit from the increase in defence spending to 2.5% of GDP. An integral part of this commitment will be the launch of a new SME Support Centre which will help small businesses access the defence supply chain. The detail of how the office will operate is currently being developed by officials with input from across the Ministry of Defence, wider Government and external stakeholders, including companies outside of the existing defence sector. We are working with SMEs to ensure that they have a say in development of the services the support centre will provide. |
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May. 21 2025
HL Bill 84-II Second Marshalled list for Committee Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS FRASER OF CRAIGMADDIE 32_ Clause 3, page 4, line 3, at end insert— “(e) a member of the Children |
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May. 19 2025
HL Bill 84-I(Rev) Revised marshalled list for Committee Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS FRASER OF CRAIGMADDIE 32_ Clause 3, page 4, line 3, at end insert— “(e) a member of the Children |
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Motor Neurone Disease APPG Document: Meeting 29 March 2023 Found: Association- Secretariat Apologies: Lord Hunt Marion Fellows MP Andrew Gwynne MP Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie |
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Wednesday 2nd July 2025 2:30 p.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The Strategic Defence Review 2025 At 2:30pm: Oral evidence The Rt Hon. the Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT - Former Defence Secretary and NATO Secretary General and Review leader at Strategic Defence Review 2025 General Sir Richard Barrons - Former Commander of Joint Forces Command and Reviewer at Strategic Defence Review 2025 Dr Fiona Hill - Chancellor of Durham University and former US presidential advisor and Reviewer at Strategic Defence Review 2025 View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 25th June 2025 10:30 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 4th June 2025 10:30 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The UK’s future relationship with the US At 10:30am: Oral evidence Evie Aspinall - Director at The British Foreign Policy Group View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 4th June 2025 11:15 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The UK’s future relationship with the US At 11:30am: Oral evidence Evie Aspinall - Director at The British Foreign Policy Group Professor Charles Kupchan - Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago At 10:00am: Oral evidence Professor Philippe Sands KC - Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College, London Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) - Professor of Law and Constitutional Government at St John's College, University of Oxford At 10:45am: Oral evidence Darshana Baruah - Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy at IISS–Asia Cleo Paskal - Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr Bryan Wilson - Scientific Advisor at The Chagos Conservation Trust At 11:30am: Oral evidence Professor Alessio Patalano - Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College, London Zack Cooper - Senior Fellow, US strategy in Asia at American Enterprise Institute Dr Thomas Withington - Associate Fellow and expert in electronic warfare and air defence at Royal United Services Institute View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago At 10:00am: Oral evidence Professor Philippe Sands KC - Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College, London Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) - Head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government at St John's College, University of Oxford At 10:45am: Oral evidence Darshana Baruah - Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy at IISS–Asia Cleo Paskal - Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr Bryan Wilson - Scientific Advisor at The Chagos Conservation Trust At 11:30am: Oral evidence Professor Alessio Patalano - Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College, London Zack Cooper - Senior Fellow, US strategy in Asia at American Enterprise Institute Dr Thomas Withington - Associate Fellow and expert in electronic warfare and air defence at Royal United Services Institute View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago At 10:00am: Oral evidence Professor Philippe Sands KC - Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College, London Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) - Head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government at St John's College, University of Oxford At 10:45am: Oral evidence Darshana Baruah - Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy at IISS–Asia Cleo Paskal - Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr Bryan Wilson - Scientific Advisor at The Chagos Conservation Trust At 11:30am: Oral evidence Professor Alessio Patalano - Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College, London Dr Thomas Withington - Associate Fellow and expert in electronic warfare and air defence at Royal United Services Institute Dr Zack Cooper - Senior Fellow, US strategy in Asia at American Enterprise Institute View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago At 10:00am: Oral evidence Professor Philippe Sands KC - Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College, London Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) - Head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government at St John's College, University of Oxford At 10:45am: Oral evidence Darshana Baruah - Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy at IISS–Asia Cleo Paskal - Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr Bryan Wilson - Research Fellow in Biology at University of Oxford At 11:30am: Oral evidence Professor Alessio Patalano - Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College, London Dr Thomas Withington - Associate Fellow and expert in electronic warfare and air defence at Royal United Services Institute Dr Zack Cooper - Senior Fellow, US strategy in Asia at American Enterprise Institute View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 11 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: International development At 11:00am: Oral evidence The Rt Hon Baroness Chapman of Darlington - Minister of State, International Development, Latin America and Caribbean at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 10 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago At 10:00am: Oral evidence Professor Philippe Sands KC - Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College, London Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) - Head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government at St John's College, University of Oxford At 10:45am: Oral evidence Darshana Baruah - Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy at IISS–Asia Cleo Paskal - Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr Bryan Wilson - Scientific Advisor, Chagos Conservation Trust and Research Fellow in Biology at University of Oxford At 11:30am: Oral evidence Professor Alessio Patalano - Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College, London Dr Thomas Withington - Associate Fellow and expert in electronic warfare and air defence at Royal United Services Institute Dr Zack Cooper - Senior Fellow, US strategy in Asia at American Enterprise Institute View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 11 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: International development At 11:00am: Oral evidence The Rt Hon Baroness Chapman of Darlington - Minister of State, International Development, Latin America and Caribbean at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Nick Dyer - Second Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 16th July 2025 11:30 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The UK’s future relationship with the US At 11:30am: Oral evidence Alex Thier - Chief Executive Officer at Lapis Group Gideon Rabinowitz - Director of Policy and Advocacy at Bond View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 3rd September 2025 10:30 a.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 23rd July 2025 3:30 p.m. International Relations and Defence Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The UK’s future relationship with the US At 3:30pm: Oral evidence Ivo Daalder - Former US Permanent Representative to NATO and President Emeritus at Chicago Council on Global Affairs Anthony Dworkin - Senior Policy Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) View calendar - Add to calendar |
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4 Jun 2025
Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago International Relations and Defence Committee (Select) Not accepting submissions No description available |