Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Labour - Life peer
Became Member: 5th June 2006
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
(since July 2024)Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
(since July 2024)Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
(since July 2024)1 APPG Membership
Woods and Trees8 Former APPG Officer Positions
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament
Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
Sparring Partners
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Science, Innovation and Technology)
(39 debate interactions)
Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
(33 debate interactions)
Department Debates
(541 debate contributions)
(21 debate contributions)
(1 debate contributions)
(1 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
(47,220 words contributed)
(43,488 words contributed)
(4,049 words contributed)
(2,416 words contributed)
Lords initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
1 Bill introduced by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
A bill to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the creation and solicitation of purported intimate images and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th June 2025 and was enacted into law.
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting