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The Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne

Conservative Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne's full title is The Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne. Her name is Emma Harriet Nicholson, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Daily attendance allowance £7,420
20 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed £7,420
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.

Lords votes · 2026

189 divisions 103 Content(54.5%) 2 Not-Content(1.1%) 84 didn't vote(44.4%)
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Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the figure above conflates absence with abstention.

Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25

2026-09-02 Electoral Commission Investigations
Does the Minister know that there are around half a million Muslim women, and others, who do not speak English and speak only their native language, who are therefore ignorant about their rights to vote under British law? Surely the Minister will recogni
2026-05-21 King’s Speech
It is a very great pleasure to have a few moments to speak and comment on the gracious Speech. I have a matter of concern, which I put to the Ministers on the Front Bench, that quite rightly both His Majesty and our Government have declared that we are i
2026-05-20 Disadvantaged Pupils: Music Attainment Gap
I welcome the Question from the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley. May I suggest to the Minister that she looks more closely at music hubs? It is extremely difficult for disabled children to get to music hubs because it has to be a parent who drives them there
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I add my thanks to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, for his comments. I look forward immensely to the meeting with him. I also point out that his colleague on the Front Bench stood up and said something about me and, of course, I could not hear
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I follow the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, with reference to our shared amendment, Amendment 174A. I apologise for not raising this in my previous discourse, but the differences are so acute that I just did not feel it right to share them in the
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I will speak in support of my own Amendment 171, where I am suggesting that there is an adjustment to insert “hearing or visual impairments”. I declare an interest on both. First, I am a vice-president of Mary Hare School for deaf children, whi
2026-03-20 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
This Private Member’s Bill has not been discussed with the mosques in London, nor anywhere else. My suggestions are that we have a meeting, that I bring suitable people with me and that we start to open this up. It is against the faith to commit suicide,
2026-01-09 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Does the noble and learned Lord not accept that his particular panel make-up disregards deafness, which is probably the largest disability in the whole of the United Kingdom? Some 19 or 20 million people are deaf to different degrees. The issue is very u
2026-01-09 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My question was about deafness. There is no social work relevance to deafness. The noble and learned Lord’s panel is very specific.
2026-01-09 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I thank the Minister. I would appreciate if it would be considered at some moment that the two medical professionals on the panel may not have any knowledge of hearing issues. There is about one week of a medical professionals’ training on hearing, and t
2026-01-09 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
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2026-01-09 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
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2025-12-02 British Embassy in Damascus
While thanking the Minister for her helpful reply, may I ask her to consider maintaining the very strong embassy we have in Lebanon? At the moment, you go to Damascus, as I have done recently, through Lebanon. We have a magnificent Foreign Office team th
2025-11-20 Child Grooming Victims: Compensation Awards
I thank the Minister for that very helpful reply and for our earlier meeting, but might I request a further meeting? These young ladies, who may not all have the strength of Madame Pelicot, will still be living in a highly corrupted community in terms of
2025-11-20 Child Grooming Victims: Compensation Awards
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to ensure compensation awards to victims of child grooming scandals are made in a timely way.
2025-11-05 Equality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of Practice
I thank the Minister for that very helpful response. Given that there is no new legislation and no opportunity for the Minister to refuse or reject the EHRC code of practice, why, therefore, have the government invited the EHRC to make an absolute analys
2025-11-05 Equality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of Practice
To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they intend to accept the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations.
2025-09-12 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I shall speak against the Bill and in support of my noble friend Lord Forsyth’s amendment, as amended by the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew. I speak as a former World Health Organization ambassador for Africa and the Middle East, and as ch
2025-05-01 NHS: Single-sex Spaces for Staff
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot, for giving us the opportunity to have this important debate. I declare an interest—it is a voluntary interest, so it is not noted by the House registrar. I chair the AMAR International Charitable Foundati
2025-04-24 Government Supply Chains: Cotton
My Lords, can the Minister assure us that, with the current and growing disruption of supply chains due to tariffs, she and her colleagues will pay extra attention to the output of bad supply chains of modern slavery on our high streets—simple things suc
2025-01-30 European Union: Trade
My Lords, while I do not require the Minister to respond in song—wonderful though that might be—would she remember when she is in Brussels this week to focus very hard on the need for musicians and their instruments to be able to travel much more freely?
2025-01-17 Regulated and Other Activities (Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, as we all do, for bringing forward this most important Bill, which I am sure will go through to full Committee and be passed. Why is it so important? I served as chair of the Sexual Violence in
2024-12-09 Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
My Lords, the Prime Minister has declared that 75% of five year-olds should have reached a good level of development. This is one of his key goals—I support that fully. I will refer exclusively to deaf children in these few minutes. Nearly 1 million peo
2024-11-21 The Ukraine Effect (European Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, it is an honour to serve on the European Affairs Committee, particularly under the exceptional chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts. The question on which our committee chose to focus was the rebuilding of the UK’s relationship with t
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 1 entries on file

Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

  • President, Iraq Britain Business Council
    registered 2013-05-21 · amended 2025-06-02
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2016-09-12 → present
Conservative current
2016-07-05 → 2016-09-11
Non-affiliated
1995-12-29 → 2016-07-04
Liberal Democrat
1987-06-11 → 1995-12-28
Conservative

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2005-02-09 → 2005-07-11
Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Joint Committee)
2013-05-16 → 2014-03-11
Soft Power Committee
2015-06-11 → 2016-03-22
Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee Chair +£15,025/yr
2018-06-12 → 2019-07-01
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
European Affairs Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Science and Technology Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 13 active officership(s) · 8 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Lebanon
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair — 4 2027-02-16
All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
Subject Group
Vice Chair — 21 2023-05-12
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Black Health
Subject Group
Vice Chair Caribbean & African Health Network 4 2026-05-22
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cabin Air Quality
Subject Group
Vice Chair Brightside Strategy 4 2027-07-10
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community
Subject Group
Officer The Runnymede Trust 4 2027-03-13
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair — 4 2026-11-30
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Republic of Iraq
Country Group
Co-Chair REVIVE Campaign 8 2022-08-28
All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Group
Subject Group
Officer UK Music 4 2026-11-23
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Vice Chair — 23 2024-05-13
British-Liechtenstein All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Vice Chair — 15 2024-05-15
British-Switzerland All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Vice Chair — 17 2024-05-15
Opera All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
Co-Chair — 3 2026-11-23
Usher Syndrome All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
Officer — 4 2026-03-12
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

Showing 13 of 13 tabled 12 answered(92.3%) 4 departments
2026-10-14
Department of Health and Social Care
Gender Dysphoria: Surgery
Pending
2026-09-17
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iraq: Reconstruction
Answered
2026-09-17
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iraq: Internally Displaced People
Answered
2026-09-17
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iraq: Yazidis
Answered
2026-09-17
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iraq: Religious Freedom
Answered
2026-09-17
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iraq: Reconstruction
Answered
2026-09-17
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Iraq: Religious Freedom
Answered
2026-09-10
Department for Work and Pensions
Blood: Lead
Answered
2026-06-18
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Cultural Heritage: Lead
Answered
2026-06-18
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Cultural Heritage: Lead
Answered
2026-06-18
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Cultural Heritage: Lead
Answered
2026-06-01
Department for Work and Pensions
Blood: Lead
Answered
2026-06-01
Department for Work and Pensions
Blood: Lead
Answered
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full question and the department's answer.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

2 bills 2 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Abortion (Foetus Protection) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2017-07-05
Humanitarian Assistance (Genocide Victims) Bill [HL] — Sponsored 2nd reading 2016-06-08
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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