Information between 13th July 2025 - 21st September 2025
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Division Votes |
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16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 134 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 180 Noes - 123 |
16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 135 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 184 Noes - 123 |
16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 140 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 202 Noes - 138 |
16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 136 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 148 Noes - 155 |
16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 61 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 124 Noes - 131 |
16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 178 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 248 Noes - 150 |
16 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 197 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 304 Noes - 160 |
21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 191 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 266 Noes - 162 |
22 Jul 2025 - Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 100 Conservative No votes vs 41 Conservative Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 155 Noes - 267 |
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 173 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 271 Noes - 138 |
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 181 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 290 Noes - 143 |
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 148 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 189 |
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Farmer voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 171 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 198 Noes - 198 |
Speeches |
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Lord Farmer speeches from: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Lord Farmer contributed 1 speech (591 words) 2nd reading Friday 12th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office |
Lord Farmer speeches from: Palestinian Territories: Development Support
Lord Farmer contributed 1 speech (2 words) Monday 1st September 2025 - Lords Chamber |
Written Answers |
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Barbie Reynolds and Peter Reynolds
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 4th August 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to revise any future Official Development Assistance for Afghanistan in the light of the imprisonment of Peter and Barbie Reynolds. Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has no plan to revise Official Development Assistance for Afghanistan in response to any detentions of British nationals. Our aid is targeted to reach those most in need and none goes directly to or through the Taliban. |
Barbie Reynolds and Peter Reynolds
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 5th August 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask His Majesty's Government what discussion they have had with other governments in the region of Afghanistan to secure the release of Peter and Barbie Reynolds from imprisonment. Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We are supporting the family of Peter and Barbara Reynolds who are detained in Afghanistan. The Minister for the Middle East met their family on 2 April and 25 June. Our priority is ensuring their welfare. In all consular cases, we take all allegations of mistreatment extremely seriously and will always raise these with the relevant authorities with the individuals' consent. We are unable to provide comment on the detail of individual consular cases in line with relevant UK data protection legislation: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office/about/personal-information-charter. |
Barbie Reynolds and Peter Reynolds
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 5th August 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to put pressure on the government of Afghanistan to ensure that Peter and Barbie Reynolds (1) receive legal assistance and (2) are allowed regular and frequent contact with family members, in accordance with the fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We are supporting the family of Peter and Barbara Reynolds who are detained in Afghanistan. The Minister for the Middle East met their family on 2 April and 25 June. Our priority is ensuring their welfare. In all consular cases, we take all allegations of mistreatment extremely seriously and will always raise these with the relevant authorities with the individuals' consent. We are unable to provide comment on the detail of individual consular cases in line with relevant UK data protection legislation: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office/about/personal-information-charter. |
Barbie Reynolds and Peter Reynolds
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 5th August 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning from a group of UN human rights experts that Peter and Barbie Reynolds could die in “degrading conditions” in Afghanistan unless they are moved to hospital for medical treatment. Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We are supporting the family of Peter and Barbara Reynolds who are detained in Afghanistan. The Minister for the Middle East met their family on 2 April and 25 June. Our priority is ensuring their welfare. In all consular cases, we take all allegations of mistreatment extremely seriously and will always raise these with the relevant authorities with the individuals' consent. We are unable to provide comment on the detail of individual consular cases in line with relevant UK data protection legislation: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office/about/personal-information-charter. |
Barbie Reynolds and Peter Reynolds
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 5th August 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to put pressure on the government of Afghanistan to ensure that Peter and Barbie Reynolds receive the healthcare they need in line with the United Nation’s Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners. Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We are supporting the family of Peter and Barbara Reynolds who are detained in Afghanistan. The Minister for the Middle East met their family on 2 April and 25 June. Our priority is ensuring their welfare. In all consular cases, we take all allegations of mistreatment extremely seriously and will always raise these with the relevant authorities with the individuals' consent. We are unable to provide comment on the detail of individual consular cases in line with relevant UK data protection legislation: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office/about/personal-information-charter. |
Barbie Reynolds and Peter Reynolds
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 5th August 2025 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken in response to the imprisonment in Afghanistan of Peter and Barbie Reynolds. Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We are supporting the family of Peter and Barbara Reynolds who are detained in Afghanistan. The Minister for the Middle East met their family on 2 April and 25 June. Our priority is ensuring their welfare. In all consular cases, we take all allegations of mistreatment extremely seriously and will always raise these with the relevant authorities with the individuals' consent. We are unable to provide comment on the detail of individual consular cases in line with relevant UK data protection legislation: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office/about/personal-information-charter. |
Medical Records: Babies
Asked by: Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer) Wednesday 10th September 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Health and Social Care on 31 March (HC38280), what progress they have made in linking fathers' health and contact information to their children's NHS records via birth notification as they currently do with mothers' data. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) Once a child is registered with the General Registry Office of Births and Deaths (GRO), the National Health Service receives information showing the parents listed on the birth certificate. Due to a period where not all GRO relationships were added to the NHS record, the NHS is currently working to ensure this happens in the future. This work should be complete by the end of 2025.
Following this, NHS England will be integrating the data into a new service, to make it easier for fathers to access their child's health record and tasks. This will be delivered through 2026. |
Live Transcript |
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16 Sep 2025, 10:46 p.m. - House of Lords "amendments that have not yet been introduced. The first is 50 to be in my name kindly back to the Noble Lord farmer and the Noble Lady Baroness Willis. And also going to " Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party) - View Video - View Transcript |
10 Sep 2025, 7:37 p.m. - House of Lords "my name and I thank Lord Farmer for his support. This looks at the " Baroness Sater (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
158 speeches (52,041 words) Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The first is Amendment 502B in my name, kindly backed by the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, and the noble Baroness - Link to Speech |
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
94 speeches (31,749 words) Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) I thank my noble friend Lord Farmer for his support. - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Thursday 28th August 2025
Written Evidence - CMI0088 - Child Maintenance Child Maintenance - Public Services Committee Found: incentivised to wither withhold contact, or provide wrong information to the CMS, referred to in the Lord Farmer |
Bill Documents |
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Sep. 12 2025
HL Bill 84-XI Eleventh marshalled list for Committee Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 34 BARONESS BENNETT OF MANOR CASTLE LORD FARMER BARONESS WILLIS |
Sep. 08 2025
HL Bill 84-X Tenth marshalled list for Committee Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: education authorities.” 57 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill BARONESS BENNETT OF MANOR CASTLE LORD FARMER |
Aug. 29 2025
HL Bill 84-IX Ninth marshalled list for Committee Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 112 BARONESS BENNETT OF MANOR CASTLE LORD FARMER BARONESS WILLIS |
Calendar |
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Tuesday 2nd September 2025 11 a.m. Home-based Working Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
Monday 15th September 2025 2 p.m. Home-based Working Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Home-based Working View calendar - Add to calendar |
Monday 20th October 2025 2 p.m. Home-based Working Committee - Private Meeting Subject: Home-based Working View calendar - Add to calendar |
Select Committee Documents |
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Monday 14th July 2025
Oral Evidence - Department for Business and Trade, Department for Business and Trade, and Cabinet Office Home-based Working - Home-based Working Committee |
Monday 23rd June 2025
Oral Evidence - Vorboss, and Independent Networks Cooperative Association Home-based Working - Home-based Working Committee |
Monday 23rd June 2025
Oral Evidence - University of Oxford, Blinktime, and Fortinet Home-based Working - Home-based Working Committee |
Tuesday 12th August 2025
Government Response - Letter from Justin Madders MP, Minister for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets at Department for Business and Trade, to the Chair Home-based Working Committee |
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Engagement document - Summary of Public Engagement Survey Results Home-based Working Committee |
Tuesday 16th September 2025
Engagement document - Note on Committee Visit to Zoom Home-based Working Committee |