Information between 8th July 2025 - 17th August 2025
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Tuesday 15th July 2025 Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: The Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation of seven major housebuilders regarding information sharing View calendar - Add to calendar |
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9 Jul 2025 - House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill 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 Thornhill 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 Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 21 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 106 Noes - 148 |
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15 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill 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 Thornhill 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 Thornhill 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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15 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 49 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 214 Noes - 153 |
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15 Jul 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 52 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 98 Noes - 148 |
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14 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 38 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 1 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 161 Noes - 191 |
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14 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill 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 Thornhill 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 Thornhill 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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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 34 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 180 Noes - 123 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 34 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 148 Noes - 155 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 36 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 184 Noes - 123 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 41 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 124 Noes - 131 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 43 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 202 Noes - 138 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 38 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 47 Noes - 121 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill 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 - 304 Noes - 160 |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 43 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 100 Noes - 136 |
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21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 21 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 216 Noes - 143 |
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21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 39 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 266 Noes - 162 |
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22 Jul 2025 - Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill 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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23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 53 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 198 Noes - 198 |
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23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill 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 - 290 Noes - 143 |
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23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 53 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 1 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 271 Noes - 138 |
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23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Baroness Thornhill voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 48 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 189 |
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Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Renters’ Rights Bill
Baroness Thornhill contributed 1 speech (599 words) Monday 21st July 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Housebuilders: Information Sharing
Baroness Thornhill contributed 2 speeches (141 words) Tuesday 15th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Renters’ Rights Bill
Baroness Thornhill contributed 18 speeches (4,888 words) Tuesday 15th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Housing: National Tenant Body
Baroness Thornhill contributed 2 speeches (156 words) Thursday 10th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Shared Ownership Schemes
Asked by: Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Monday 4th August 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent a two-tier market for shared ownership properties, where new properties have a peppercorn ground rent, lower rent increases, longer leases and protection from repair costs for 10 years unlike legacy shared ownership properties. Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The changes described have been implemented through successive amendments to the shared ownership model lease. Once a lease agreement is entered into, its rights and obligations become legally binding. It is not, therefore, possible to apply policy changes to legacy shared owners without contravening legal agreements between individual shared owners and their social landlords.
Legacy shared owners will, however, benefit from the Government’s wider leasehold and commonhold reforms. Measures in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, once commenced, will grant shared owners the right to a statutory lease extension of 990 years.
The Government continues to give close consideration to ways to improve the experience of all shared owners, including those existing owners who were not captured by changes to the model lease. |
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Social Rented Housing: Finance
Asked by: Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Monday 4th August 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for using the Social and Affordable Homes Programme budget to fund buybacks of unmortgageable flats from shared owners and convert those flats to social rent or other affordable rent. Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) Social housing providers currently have the option to repurchase homes where shared owners are unable to sell due to building safety issues. They can use Recycled Capital Grant Funding or alternative resources to do so. This is not an automatic entitlement for shared owners and is available at providers’ discretion. Providers will have their own policies setting out when this option is available, including any relevant eligibility criteria, and they are expected to publish all relevant policies on their websites in a clear and accessible format. To deliver the scale of housing the country needs, we have confirmed a new 10-year £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme to kickstart social and affordable housebuilding at scale across the country. We will publish a full prospectus for the new programme in autumn 2025. |
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10 Jul 2025, 11:07 a.m. - House of Lords ">> First >> First Oral >> First Oral Questions, >> First Oral Questions, Baroness Thornhill. >> I beg leave to ask the question standing in my name on the Order " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Jul 2025, 11:10 a.m. - House of Lords "also the Noble Lady Baroness Thornhill. There is a lot of work being done already in the Social " Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:29 p.m. - House of Lords "rent scheme. I thank Baroness Thornhill for her interest in the " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:31 p.m. - House of Lords "Amendment 116, Baroness Thornhill. " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:31 p.m. - House of Lords "116, Baroness Thornhill. Not moved. " Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:17 p.m. - House of Lords "committee and I won't repeat that now especially as Baroness Thornhill has made so powerfully caused just " Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 6:59 p.m. - House of Lords "action is needed, I think Baroness Thornhill referred to this as well. Officers will need the correct authorisation stating the purpose of the inspection and ensuring lawful use of the power of entry. " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:21 p.m. - House of Lords "powerful speech from Baroness Thornhill, they've left new with very little to say except I think Baroness Lister has given me a queue " The Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bishops) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:22 p.m. - House of Lords ">> I hesitate to follow when Sodom and Gomorrah have both been mentioned, however Baroness Thornhill has made a powerful case " The Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bishops) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 7:25 p.m. - House of Lords "Baroness Thornhill has pointed out that the Home Office has never " Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 4:26 p.m. - House of Lords "already been raised, and our last debate by Baroness Thornhill and Lord Cromwell, relating to police " Lord Hacking (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 4:41 p.m. - House of Lords "noble Baroness Thornhill says, I don't think we need to question the professionalism of local authorities, in dealing with these matters. They are more than well- " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 4:42 p.m. - House of Lords "required to issue a notice of intent, built the note is the noble Baroness Thornhill mentioned about " Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 3:57 p.m. - House of Lords "Howe and Baroness Thornhill and all the tenant groups are taking time to speak to me about the amendments, in " Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 3:59 p.m. - House of Lords "I would like to reiterate that there were Baroness Thornhill, good landlords have nothing to fear, from " Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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21 Jul 2025, 4:41 p.m. - House of Lords "Fleet of the Liberals Baroness Thornhill has. At this stage, my Lords, our companion makes it plain " Lord Hacking (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Jul. 24 2025
HL Bill 110-II(c) Amendments for Committee (Supplementary to the Second Marshalled List) Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Clause 48 BARONESS THORNHILL _ Clause 48, page 61, line 13, at end insert— “(ba) the requirement for |
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Jul. 22 2025
HL Bill 110-II Second marshalled list for Committee Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS THORNHILL 134_ After Clause 51, insert the following new Clause— “Removal of Permitted Development |
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Jul. 15 2025
HL Bill 110-I Marshalled list for Committee Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS THORNHILL 134★_ After Clause 51, insert the following new Clause— “Removal of Permitted Development |
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Jul. 14 2025
HL Bill 110 Running list of amendments – 14 July 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS THORNHILL _ Clause 52, page 73, line 4 at end insert— “(2A) A spatial development strategy |
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Jul. 11 2025
HL Bill 110 Running list of amendments – 11 July 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS THORNHILL _ Clause 52, page 73, line 4 at end insert— “(2A) A spatial development strategy |
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Jul. 11 2025
HL Bill 103-III Third marshalled list for Report Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: After Clause 63 BARONESS THORNHILL 90_ After Clause 63, insert the following new Clause— “Post-legislative |
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Jul. 10 2025
HL Bill 110 Running list of amendments – 10 July 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: BARONESS THORNHILL ★_ Clause 52, page 73, line 4 at end insert— “(2A) A spatial development strategy |