Baroness Goudie Portrait

Baroness Goudie

Labour - Life peer

Became Member: 21st July 1998


Windsor Framework Sub-Committee
18th Jul 2023 - 30th May 2024
Windsor Framework Sub-Committee
14th Apr 2021 - 11th Jan 2023
Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland Sub-Committee
14th Apr 2021 - 11th Jan 2023
Adult Social Care Committee
19th Jan 2022 - 21st Nov 2022
Charities Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
22nd Jul 2021 - 18th Nov 2021
Procedure and Privileges Committee
4th Feb 2021 - 29th Apr 2021
EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee
23rd Apr 2020 - 31st Mar 2021
Finance Committee (Lords)
1st Sep 2016 - 28th Jan 2021
EU Justice Sub-Committee
2nd Jul 2019 - 23rd Apr 2020
Licensing Act 2003 Committee
25th May 2016 - 4th Apr 2017
Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee
11th Jun 2015 - 22nd Mar 2016
Insurance Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
19th Nov 2014 - 24th Dec 2014
Soft Power Committee
16th May 2013 - 11th Mar 2014
Committee of Selection (Lords)
4th Dec 2008 - 25th Apr 2013
Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)
15th Dec 2008 - 6th May 2010
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
15th Jun 2005 - 15th Feb 2006
Information Committee (Lords)
25th Nov 2002 - 7th May 2005
Procedure and Privileges Committee
26th Jun 2001 - 18th Nov 2004


Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Baroness Goudie has voted in 8 divisions, and never against the majority of their Party.
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

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Legislation Debates
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Baroness Goudie has not introduced any legislation before Parliament

Baroness Goudie has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting


Latest 15 Written Questions

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13th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to protect working parents eligible for free early education and childcare from charging for consumables by some nurseries.

The department is taking steps to protect parents from unfair charging practices by some nurseries, as we announced last month, as part of our wider effort to ensure that parents can access and afford the hours they are entitled to. More information about the announcement can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/school-based-nurseries-plan-kicks-off-with-15-million-funding.

The department is currently looking at updating the early years statutory guidance as part of its regular review, in order to ensure that the guidance around charging is both clear and fair for local authorities, early years providers and parents and that the hours are accessible and affordable for all families that need them.

The department will be seeking to engage with providers, local authorities and other relevant stakeholder groups, including those representing parents, to discuss its proposed updates to the statutory guidance for local authorities and to seek feedback on how the guidance can be improved.

If parents believe they are experiencing unfair consumable charges, they should raise this with their local authority, who will be able to offer the appropriate support and next steps on clarifying appropriate charging with providers.

Baroness Smith of Malvern
Minister of State (Education)
13th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the interim report Infant formula and follow-on formula market study by the Competition and Markets Authority published on 8 November.

Infant feeding is critical to a baby’s healthy growth and development. The Government is committed to giving every child the best start in life, and that includes helping families to access support to feed their baby.

We welcome the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) infant formula and follow-on formula market study interim report, and will carefully consider its findings and options. We will continue to engage with the CMA ahead of the publication of its final report in February 2025.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
22nd Oct 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that children's hospices can continue to provide lifeline care if the £25 million annual funding from NHS England is not extended beyond 2024–25.

While 2023/24 marked the final year of the Children’s Hospice Grant in its previous format, in 2024/25, NHS England continued to provide an additional £25 million of funding for children and young people’s hospices, maintaining the level of grant funding from 2023/24. For the first time, this funding was transacted by integrated care boards (ICBs), on behalf of NHS England, rather than being centrally administered as before.

The Department and NHS England are aware that the shift to the dissemination of funding via ICBs in 2024/25 has not been as smooth a transition as we would have hoped. However, we are working closely with NHS England to resolve any remaining issues to the 2024/25 funding, and we are also jointly considering the future of this important funding stream beyond 2024/25.

The Minister of State for Care recently met NHS England, Together for Short Lives, and one of the co-chairs of the Children Who Need Palliative Care All-Party Parliamentary Group, Lord Balfe, to discuss children’s palliative and end of life care, and this funding stream was discussed at length at that meeting.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
22nd Oct 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of delays experienced by children’s hospices in receiving the £25 million annual NHS England funding, which is now distributed by Integrated Care Boards, and what steps they are taking to ensure timely access to this funding in future years.

While 2023/24 marked the final year of the Children’s Hospice Grant in its previous format, in 2024/25, NHS England continued to provide an additional £25 million of funding for children and young people’s hospices, maintaining the level of grant funding from 2023/24. For the first time, this funding was transacted by integrated care boards (ICBs), on behalf of NHS England, rather than being centrally administered as before.

The Department and NHS England are aware that the shift to the dissemination of funding via ICBs in 2024/25 has not been as smooth a transition as we would have hoped. However, we are working closely with NHS England to resolve any remaining issues to the 2024/25 funding, and we are also jointly considering the future of this important funding stream beyond 2024/25.

The Minister of State for Care recently met NHS England, Together for Short Lives, and one of the co-chairs of the Children Who Need Palliative Care All-Party Parliamentary Group, Lord Balfe, to discuss children’s palliative and end of life care, and this funding stream was discussed at length at that meeting.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
22nd Oct 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which children’s hospices rely on the annual £25 million funding from NHS England; and what plans they have to secure this funding beyond 2024–25 to prevent a shortfall in services.

While 2023/24 marked the final year of the Children’s Hospice Grant in its previous format, in 2024/25, NHS England continued to provide an additional £25 million of funding for children and young people’s hospices, maintaining the level of grant funding from 2023/24. For the first time, this funding was transacted by integrated care boards (ICBs), on behalf of NHS England, rather than being centrally administered as before.

The Department and NHS England are aware that the shift to the dissemination of funding via ICBs in 2024/25 has not been as smooth a transition as we would have hoped. However, we are working closely with NHS England to resolve any remaining issues to the 2024/25 funding, and we are also jointly considering the future of this important funding stream beyond 2024/25.

The Minister of State for Care recently met NHS England, Together for Short Lives, and one of the co-chairs of the Children Who Need Palliative Care All-Party Parliamentary Group, Lord Balfe, to discuss children’s palliative and end of life care, and this funding stream was discussed at length at that meeting.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
21st Oct 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement a robust system to track the school nurse workforce to enable informed decision-making and resource allocation.

We are committed to creating the healthiest generation of children ever. The child health workforce, including school nurses, who lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme is central to how we support children, young people, and families.

We are also committed to training the staff we need to ensure everyone receives care from the right professional, when and where they need it. We will want to assure ourselves, and the National Health Service, that the current workforce plan will deliver the reform needed. We will also need to do this in light of the 10-Year Health Plan.

Local authorities are best placed to determine local workforce needs, as they know their communities best. Determining the skills and workforce requirements should be underpinned by a local plan and led by the area’s identified health needs.

The Chief Public Health Nurse Office has established a programme of work which aims to improve the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, which includes school nursing. This will include a review of the school nursing workforce data in England.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
21st Oct 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of school nurses to ensure adequate coverage across the country.

We are committed to creating the healthiest generation of children ever. The child health workforce, including school nurses, who lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme is central to how we support children, young people, and families.

We are also committed to training the staff we need to ensure everyone receives care from the right professional, when and where they need it. We will want to assure ourselves, and the National Health Service, that the current workforce plan will deliver the reform needed. We will also need to do this in light of the 10-Year Health Plan.

Local authorities are best placed to determine local workforce needs, as they know their communities best. Determining the skills and workforce requirements should be underpinned by a local plan and led by the area’s identified health needs.

The Chief Public Health Nurse Office has established a programme of work which aims to improve the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, which includes school nursing. This will include a review of the school nursing workforce data in England.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
9th Sep 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with (1) the NHS, (2) NICE, and (3) MHRA, to ensure that NHS patients can access licensed treatments for Alzheimer's disease.

Department officials have had a number of conversations with colleagues in NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to discuss the progress of key regulatory decisions and the National Health Service's preparations for the adoption of any licensed and NICE recommended treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

The NICE is currently developing guidance for the NHS on the use of several potential new medicines for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as currently consulting on its draft guidance on the use of lecanemab. The NICE has determined that the benefits of this first new treatment are just too small to justify the significant cost to the NHS. These are very difficult decisions to make, and it is right that they are taken independently, and on the basis of the available evidence of costs and benefits. We understand how disappointing the NICE’s draft guidance will be to all those affected, but we need to make sure that the finite resources of the NHS are only spent on treatments that are clinically and cost effective, to ensure patient and taxpayer benefit. The NICE’s draft recommendations are now open to consultation, and the NICE will take the comments received fully into account in developing its final guidance.

Lecanemab is the first disease modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s disease with a marketing approval in Great Britain, and to ensure the health system is prepared for future advances in treatments, a dedicated NHS England team is already looking ahead to 27 other treatments which are currently in advanced clinical trials, that could potentially be approved by 2030.

Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
5th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the perspectives of women are considered when making any foreign policy decisions, especially in relation to Afghanistan and the conflict in the Middle East.

Ministers and officials regularly engage with women stakeholders, including from across the Middle East and Afghanistan, to ensure our policy and programming reflect their views and needs.

The Minister for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan has hosted Afghan women leaders to hear their perspectives and discuss women's inclusion in Afghanistan's future.

We are aware that the specific needs of marginalised groups, including women, will need to be integrated into planning for recovery in Gaza. Officials engage with both Palestinian and Israeli women-led organisations to seek their views. The UK is steadfast in its commitment to women's participation in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

Lord Collins of Highbury
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
5th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to support refugees from Afghanistan who have been deported from Pakistan.

Since September 2023, we have committed £18.5 million to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable returnees in Afghanistan. This support forms part of a broader package of £161 million in assistance to the Afghan people this year. The UK is closely monitoring Pakistan's policy on the deportation of Afghans and has raised the issue on many occasions with the Government of Pakistan. We are working with international partners, including the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), IOM and the World Bank to ensure Pakistan adheres to its international human rights obligations with respect to those affected.

Lord Collins of Highbury
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
2nd Sep 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to deny preferential trading rights to companies from countries with poor human rights records.

The Government is committed to working with international partners and businesses to ensure global supply chains are free from human and labour rights abuses. The UK monitors all countries on the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) on an ongoing basis for serious and systemic violations of human rights (including gender rights), labour rights and environmental obligations based on international conventions. The DCTS includes the power to suspend a country's preferential tariffs for such violations, however, it does not have the power to individually suspend a company's trade preferences.

Lord Collins of Highbury
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
18th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent organised crime groups from advertising victims of trafficking and other sexual exploitation offences on websites advertising sexual services.

The trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has set out an unprecedented mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all the levers available to us to deliver this.

We continue to work closely with law enforcement to ensure there is a relentless pursuit of prolific perpetrators, including through operational intensification initiatives.

We are also clear that online platforms are a significant enabler of sexual exploitation and must be responsible and accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. The Online Safety Act 2023 sets out priority offences, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking offences, and companies will need to adopt measures and put in place systems and processes to identify, assess and address these offences based on a risk assessment, or face significant penalties.

Home Office Ministers regularly meet with stakeholders, including NGOs and law enforcement partners, to promote the better identification and prosecution of perpetrators, and to enhance support for victims who are trapped within commercial sexual exploitation.

Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)
18th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce demand for trafficking for sexual exploitation.

The trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has set out an unprecedented mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all the levers available to us to deliver this.

We continue to work closely with law enforcement to ensure there is a relentless pursuit of prolific perpetrators, including through operational intensification initiatives.

We are also clear that online platforms are a significant enabler of sexual exploitation and must be responsible and accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. The Online Safety Act 2023 sets out priority offences, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking offences, and companies will need to adopt measures and put in place systems and processes to identify, assess and address these offences based on a risk assessment, or face significant penalties.

Home Office Ministers regularly meet with stakeholders, including NGOs and law enforcement partners, to promote the better identification and prosecution of perpetrators, and to enhance support for victims who are trapped within commercial sexual exploitation.

Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)
5th Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative, in their report Still Waiting: the Afghans Abandoned by the UK, published in August, regarding the delays and decision-making processes for resettlement schemes for refugees from Afghanistan.

We are determined to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK. The UK has made an ambitious commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 32,600 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan resettlement schemes.

Our priority right now is the relocation of those identified as eligible for resettlement under our resettlement schemes, and fixing the gaps in existing routes. That is why we affirmed our ongoing commitment to Afghans and their families by launching the ACRS Separated Families route, which provides a pathway to reunite those families who were unintentionally separated during Operation Pitting.

Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)