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Division Vote (Lords)
19 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Blunkett (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 151 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 148 Noes - 156
Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 16 Jan 2026
Rare Cancers Bill

"I apologise to the House for my premature and ill-timed intervention earlier. After 10 years in the House, I need to go back and sharply revise my understanding of procedure. I am grateful to the House for the opportunity of being able to intervene.

I am emotionally moved today by …..."
Lord Blunkett - View Speech

View all Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Rare Cancers Bill
Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 16 Jan 2026
Rare Cancers Bill

"My Lords, may I take one minute of the House’s time? I commend what was just said by the noble Lord, whom I was pleased to work with many years ago, when he was the Minister. I am very pleased that he recalled the last contribution that my long-standing friend, …..."
Lord Blunkett - View Speech

View all Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Rare Cancers Bill
Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 16 Jan 2026
Rare Cancers Bill

"My apologies...."
Lord Blunkett - View Speech

View all Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Rare Cancers Bill
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Exercise Pegasus 2025

"I do not want to put my noble friend the Minister on the spot, but will she take cognisance of what has happened with the noble and learned Baroness’s interim report in relation to the use of statistics and the suggestion that a week-earlier lockdown would have saved 23,000 lives? …..."
Lord Blunkett - View Speech

View all Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Exercise Pegasus 2025
Division Vote (Lords)
14 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Blunkett (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 152 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 213 Noes - 211
Division Vote (Lords)
14 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Blunkett (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 162 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 278 Noes - 176
Written Question
V-levels
Monday 12th January 2026

Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 15 December (HL12482), when they expect to publish their response to their consultation, Post-16 level 3 and below pathways, closing on 12 January 2026.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The results of the consultation on Post-16 Level 3 and Below Pathways and the department's response will be published on GOV.UK in spring 2026.

Division Vote (Lords)
12 Jan 2026 - Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Blunkett (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 201 Noes - 169
Written Question
Prisoners
Monday 5th January 2026

Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence were in prison on recall as of 1 December 2025 following a breach of licence conditions where no further criminal charge was brought; and to provide a breakdown of that number by the continuous length of time spent in custody since their most recent recall in increments of (1) less than 12 months, (2) one to two years, (3) two to three years, (4) three to four years, (5) four to five years, (6) five to six years), (7) six to seven years, (8) seven to eight years, (9) eight to nine years, (10) nine to ten years, and (11) more than ten years.

Answered by Lord Timpson - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Data on the prison population is published as part of the Department’s Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) release, with the latest publication including prison population data as at 30 September 2025.

The requested information (based on the prison population as at 1 December 2025) cannot be provided at the current time because it would provide an early indication of the data underpinning the next iteration of these Accredited Official Statistics, which will be published on 29 January 2026