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
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
57 Content(35.2%)
12 Not-Content(7.4%)
93 didn't vote(57.4%)
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
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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
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
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.
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
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
2025-01-30
Europe: Youth Mobility
My Lords, it is a pleasure to have heard the maiden speech by the noble Lord, Lord Moraes, which was absolutely charming. He will be a welcome addition to this House.
If we do not give young people the opportunities that we tore from them when we left
My Lords, the sooner Musk goes to Mars the better.
I hugely congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, on bringing this important issue to the Floor of the House. A number of countries have introduced mandatory reporting. Of course, the resu
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Owen of Alderley Edge, on this important Bill. It is such a well-thought-through Bill, and it fills all the gaps— hugely important gaps—left by
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Knight of Weymouth, and I pay tribute to the chair of the committee, the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell of Beeston, for her first-class chairing of what was a really complex issue to those of
2024-10-17
Ethiopia Famine: 40th Anniversary
My Lords, I shall not detain noble Lords for long. It has been an excellent debate, and I want to thank every single contributor for their wisdom, knowledge, passion and intellect in addressing what are insoluble problems. When I was in Africa, they had
2024-10-17
Ethiopia Famine: 40th Anniversary
My Lords, 40 years ago almost to the day, on 23 October 1984, the nation was shocked by Michael Buerk’s famous BBC broadcast. It was a watershed moment in TV and world history that alerted the world to the terrible famine in Ethiopia. Close to 8 million
2024-10-17
Ethiopia Famine: 40th Anniversary
That this House takes note of the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Ethiopia famine in the light of the current conflict and food insecurity in the country.
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
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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
14 answered(87.5%)
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 | 2nd reading | 2026-06-08 |
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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 | 2nd reading | 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.