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Information between 13th July 2025 - 21st September 2025

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Division Votes
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
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
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.




Lord Farmer mentioned

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
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
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
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




Lord Farmer - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 11 a.m.
Home-based Working Committee - Private Meeting
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Monday 15th September 2025 2 p.m.
Home-based Working Committee - Private Meeting
Subject: Home-based Working
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Monday 20th October 2025 2 p.m.
Home-based Working Committee - Private Meeting
Subject: Home-based Working
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Select Committee Documents
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