The Rt Hon. the Baroness Featherstone
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Featherstone's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Featherstone. Her name is Lynne Choona Featherstone, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,565
15 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£5,565
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
70 Content(37.0%)
16 Not-Content(8.5%)
103 didn't vote(54.5%)
2026-07-21
Not-Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
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
2026-09-11
Creative Education Access Bill [HL]
My Lords, I really think that that was a marvellous maiden speech. The Minister has a most exquisite voice as well, which gives her a bit of an advantage. I know that she is on our side on this. Given that my noble friend on the Front Bench mentioned th
2026-09-11
Creative Education Access Bill [HL]
My Lords, first, let me congratulate the Minister, welcome her to her place and wish her all the very best. This is a gentle start, I hope. This Bill has the support of many organisations, and I give thanks to the Cultural Learning Alliance, the National
2026-09-11
Creative Education Access Bill [HL]
That the Bill be now read a second time.
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
My Lords, I very much welcome the Bill. The Hillsborough families had not only to endure an unimaginable loss but then to spend decades trying to establish the truth about what had happened. Sadly, public institutions so often respond to appalling situat
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Baroness. When one hears stories directly like that, they have an impact. I am so sorry for the noble Baroness’s loss. As ever, I have to declare my interest: one of my sister’s twin boys—my nephew, who was a
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Sugg, for bringing this important debate. During my years as International Development Minister and as the Government’s champion for tackling violence against women and girls overseas, people often asked me what
2026-06-25
Democratic Institutions: Threats
My Lords, I too thank my noble friend Lord Wallace of Saltaire for securing this important debate. He and others have already hit the nail on the head by referring to the loss of trust. However, we speak of disinformation, foreign interference and declin
My Lords, I too thank our excellent chair and fellow committee members for what I found to be quite a fascinating inquiry.
The extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic transformed home-based working from a relatively niche practice into a normal pa
2026-04-21
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
My Lords, I thank the Minister, because she is sincere and has done a lot to convince us that real change is happening. As ever, sadly, I have to declare an interest, as one of my sister’s twin boys was a haemophiliac who was infected with hepatitis C. H
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
I am very grateful. I thank everyone for such brilliant speeches—there is such knowledge in this House; it makes me so proud of everybody here. To the noble Baroness, Lady Hyde, I say that I was a designer before I came here, and my studio was at 7 Caled
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
My Lords, I very much look forward to the maiden speeches of the noble Lord, Lord Barber of Chittlehampton, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hyde of Bemerton, as I am sure we all are.
I was a Minister in the Department for International Development for tw
2026-01-29
UK Development Partnership Assistance
That this House takes note of the role of UK development partnership assistance in diplomacy, conflict resolution and the exercise of soft power.
2025-12-09
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I speak against Amendment 310 on the prohibition of pimping. According to the Member’s explanatory statement, it would
“make it a criminal offence to enable or profit from the prostitution of another person, including by operating a website
2025-11-27
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, this follows on very well because I will speak to Amendment 283 in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, which would insert after Clause 72 the offence of intentionally concealing child sex abuse.
There is a real problem—and
2025-10-16
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I wish to address three issues. The first is the long-awaited duty of mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. This is a key recommendation of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, but with a strengthened and more encompassing base
2025-09-12
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, first, I thank the many people who have written to me to beg me to support the Bill, and I do. So many of those letters tell a horrific story of watching a loved one suffer. The proportion of those letters that are in support compared to those
2025-07-24
Infected Blood Inquiry: Additional Report
That is all right; I just was insistent.
Many noble Lords already know, but I have to declare an interest, sadly, because one of my sister’s twin boys, who was a haemophiliac, contracted hepatitis C and died aged 35, leaving a 10 month-old daughter.
2025-07-24
Infected Blood Inquiry: Additional Report
My Lords—
2025-07-24
Infected Blood Inquiry: Additional Report
My Lords—
2025-07-04
Still-Birth (Definition) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am so very glad that my noble friend Lady Benjamin has brought this issue to the Floor of the House. Two things in particular drove me to speak in this debate. Not long ago, I was listening to a programme on the radio about early stillbirth a
2025-05-21
Infected Blood Inquiry: Government Response
My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. Many noble Lords will have heard me say before that I have to declare an interest, but for those who do not know, it is because one of my sister’s twins died aged 35 of infected blood and hepati
My Lords, I congratulate the committee and the chair on this important report, and my noble and very dear friend Lord Pack on his excellent maiden speech—I look forward to many more.
With the growth of social media, everyone is a pundit: individuals,
My Lords, I am so grateful to my noble friend Lady Brinton for bringing this regret amendment. I know that the Government are trying very hard to get the regulations right, but there are so many concerns about a variety of issues, many of which were rais
2025-02-27
Prenuptial Agreements
My Lords, what a very interesting debate. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, on securing it. I have no legal training. I am not sure if I am the only person speaking in this debate who is not a lawyer or a judge of some sort, but I am speakin
2025-02-12
Copyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024
My Lords, I rise in support of the regret Motion of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. One of the great joys of being British is that we hold high standards and pride ourselves on fair play. We have always traditionally upheld strong intellectual proper
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Register of Interests · 2 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 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Killick & Co (investment management)
registered 2021-04-26 · amended 2025-04-05
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Fundsmith (investment management company)
registered 2020-07-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
2005-05-05 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
2014-11-04 → 2015-05-08
Minister of State (Home Office)
2012-09-06 → 2014-11-04
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Development)
2010-05-17 → 2012-09-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
2010-05-12 → 2011-04-26
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Government Equalities Office)
Opposition posts
2015-11-30 → 2019-02-08
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change)
2008-10-07 → 2010-05-06
Liberal Democrat Spokeperson (Children, Schools and Families)
2006-03-03 → 2007-12-20
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government)
2006-03-03 → 2007-12-20
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (International Development)
2005-05-10 → 2006-03-03
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Home Affairs)
Committee memberships
2005-07-12 → 2006-05-22
Environmental Audit Committee
2021-01-28 → 2024-01-31
Communications and Digital Committee
2025-01-30 → 2025-10-27
Home-based Working Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
featherstonel@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | The Haemophilia Society | 4 | 2027-04-17 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
Showing
16
of 16 tabled
16 answered(100.0%)
2
departments
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Education Access Bill [HL] | Lead | Committee stage | 2026-06-08 |
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)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Education Access Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2026-06-08 | |
| Carbon Emission Reductions Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-07-18 | |
| Carbon Emission Reductions Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-06-15 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.