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Information between 30th December 2024 - 8th February 2025

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Division Votes
21 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - 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 - 258 Noes - 138
21 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 56 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes
Tally: Ayes - 87 Noes - 157
6 Jan 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) 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 - 46 Noes - 61
8 Jan 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Thornhill voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 54 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 226 Noes - 228
28 Jan 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - 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 - 145 Noes - 126
29 Jan 2025 - Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] - 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 0 Liberal Democrat No votes
Tally: Ayes - 206 Noes - 45
5 Feb 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 48 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes
Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 130
5 Feb 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 47 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes
Tally: Ayes - 302 Noes - 132
5 Feb 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] - 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 - 183 Noes - 127
5 Feb 2025 - Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Thornhill voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 37 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes
Tally: Ayes - 168 Noes - 112


Speeches
Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Southport Attack
Baroness Thornhill contributed 1 speech (585 words)
Thursday 6th February 2025 - Lords Chamber
Home Office
Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Renters’ Rights Bill
Baroness Thornhill contributed 1 speech (1,815 words)
Tuesday 4th February 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Baroness Thornhill speeches from: Homelessness
Baroness Thornhill contributed 1 speech (86 words)
Tuesday 21st January 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government


Written Answers
Social Services: Gender
Asked by: Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Thursday 23rd January 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to issue guidance regarding single-sex provision in social care settings, including nursing homes and people's own homes, for adults with learning difficulties or cognitive impairment who are vulnerable and at increased risk of sexual abuse.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Local authorities are under statutory duties to safeguard adults in their area with care and support needs from abuse and neglect. This includes making enquiries, or causing others to do so, if it believes that an adult in its area, with care and support needs, which may include learning difficulties or cognitive impairments or both, is experiencing or at risk of abuse, including sexual abuse, or neglect, and as a result of those needs is, or would be, unable to protect themselves.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered care providers are also required to adhere to the CQC fundamental standards, set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, which include that service users must be treated with dignity and respect, and must have their support provided in a way that reflects their preferences. The CQC’s guidance on this legislative framework says that when providing intimate or personal care, a provider must make every reasonable effort to make sure that they respect people's preferences about who delivers their care and treatment. This may include requesting staff of a specific sex.

Social Services: Gender
Asked by: Baroness Thornhill (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Monday 3rd February 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government why the Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023 state that adult care providers must collect data based on gender, which is defined as "the gender the individual considers themselves to be", and not based on sex, given that sex, not gender, is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act; and what assessment they have made of providers' ability to supply single-sex services if data on sex is not collected.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Client Level Data is the first national collection of individual social care records, and this data is collected by the Department from local authorities, rather than care providers. The purpose of the 2023 Directions is to assist the Department in its functions, in particular by enabling key aspects of adult social care service provision to be analysed and reported on at a national level. Local authorities are required to collect information about gender, but that does not preclude them from collecting other information from service users such as on sex, including where this is necessary for them to discharge legal obligations.

The Department has not made an assessment of care providers’ ability to supply single-sex services. We expect Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated care providers to adhere to the CQC’s fundamental standards, set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, which require service users to be treated with dignity and respect. The CQC’s guidance on this legislative framework says that “When providing intimate or personal care, providers must make every reasonable effort to make sure that they respect people's preferences about who delivers their care and treatment”. This may include requesting staff of a specific sex.