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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Jun 2026
Best Start Family Hubs

"My Lords, can my noble friend the Minister please explain how the Government will ensure that these brilliant hubs reach and build trust with all women. I am thinking, for example, of women who are the victims of domestic abuse, women who have poor mental health and women who have …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 08 Jun 2026
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for bringing this Bill and for its many important clauses. We have had some excellent contributions, but I particularly thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester for his powerful intervention on the nature of debt and its particularly devastating …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 04 Jun 2026
National Arts Bank

"I thank my noble friend Lord John for tabling this debate and welcome the contributions from noble Lords so far. I will particularly focus on theatre, having spent about a decade working in that industry and having trained at Guildford School of Acting. I welcome the suggestion of an arts …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Jun 2026
Social Housing Bill [HL]

"My Lords, it is quite overwhelming to speak after such an expert on housing and homelessness as the noble Lord, Lord Bird. I thank the noble Lord for his speech.

I welcome this Bill and thank my noble friend the Minister for her work on it. I have just finished …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 May 2026
King’s Speech

"I congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich for an important and moving maiden speech. The first person in her family to stay in education after 16, this tenacious Teessider has a lot to offer your Lordships’ House. When Bishop of Stepney, she was my …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Apr 2026
Women’s Health Strategy

"My Lords, I, too, warmly welcome this strategy and thank my noble friend the Minister for all her hard work and persistence with it. It touches on many aspects of my experience but, in the interests of brevity, I shall focus my questions and comments today on endometriosis, having waited …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Apr 2026
Grenfell Tower Memorial (Expenditure) Bill

"Who and what we as a country remember matters. Although many others in your Lordships’ House are clearly far more qualified on this topic and have had direct face-to-face experience of the tragedy, I wanted to speak in this debate because, as somebody who was living in London and has …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 06 Mar 2026
International Women’s Day

"I congratulate my noble friends, my sisters on these Benches, on their stellar maiden speeches. I declare an interest: I am the executive member for health and social care at Islington Council.

My Lords and Ladies, like other sisters in your Lordships’ House, I have a range of appalling personal …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Better Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report)

"I congratulate the noble Lords on their maiden speeches. They were truly excellent contributions, and I look forward to the one that is yet to come in this debate. I am delighted that they have all chosen to speak and make the ground of their maiden speeches the topic of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Jan 2026
UK Development Partnership Assistance

"My Lords, I am profoundly grateful to have the opportunity to speak for the first time in your Lordships’ House. Indeed, I am profoundly grateful simply to be here. It is really not a normal trajectory from Cox Green comprehensive to here. I am deeply thankful to the incredible staff …..."
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