The Rt Hon. the Baroness Scotland of Asthal KC
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Scotland of Asthal's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Scotland of Asthal KC. Her name is Patricia Janet Scotland, 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
1 Content(0.6%)
65 Not-Content(40.1%)
96 didn't vote(59.3%)
2026-04-27
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58–138
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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 14
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I do not want to interrupt the noble Lord again, but I think it is right for him to know that this matter came before the Attorney-General, myself, to determine how we should address this problem. How could we make it better? How could we differentiate b
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I hesitate to interrupt the noble Lord, Lord Baker, but I am sure he would want the House to be aware that the Attorney-General’s guidelines have assisted in enabling prosecutors to make decisions which would obviate the need for prosecution w
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I rise not least because it is very important for us to take a moment to understand the importance of this debate—in particular, to address the matters raised by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. I too have sat through all the days in Committee, an
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Noble Lords will know that I have sat for the whole day waiting for amendments and have not intervened, but I want to put on record that I will not be able to be here next Friday. I therefore invite the House to consider particularly what the noble Baron
2026-01-09
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, if I may just assist the noble and learned Lord, the reason I think it relevant is that if that multidisciplinary assessment is available, and the court has that evidence available to it, together with any other assessment made by individual ad
2026-01-09
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I declare an interest as a former deputy High Court judge and recorder. Does the noble and learned Lord not think that one way of curing his concern in relation to the multidisciplinary nature of the assessment would be for the assessment to be made earl
2025-11-21
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I wonder if I might help my noble and learned friend on the concerns that clearly have been expressed. A number of noble Lords have been talking about what evidence there is. The concern was expressed in the last debate last Friday that if you
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I never suggested that they should be alternatives. The truth is that palliative care is not available in all parts of our country, so this has to be a real choice. That is the only element I made.
Also, I hope that all of us would look at the evidenc
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The difficulty we had was of course with time. We did not take a lot of evidence. The Committee will know that there was a request that we should take written evidence. It would have been possible for us to take written evidence from a number of jurisdi
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
We were very grateful to receive evidence from New Zealand, and we heard from a practitioner about the challenges and the opportunities that there are. But we also heard that New Zealand had moved from being the third most successful in delivering pallia
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
If I could just be allowed to finish, I would be most grateful, because I have taken only three minutes and 48 seconds, and I do not intend to trouble the Committee for very much longer.
This issue has to be looked at. We have to be serious about loo
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
If we look at what Professor Foster and others have said, they say that the Mental Health Act 1983 is the sort of assessment that a psychiatrist should make as to whether they are in a position to make that decision. It is not just the MCA on its own—
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I have hesitated to intervene at this point because we are going to come later to talk about capacity and why the Mental Capacity Act and its definition does not fit well with this Bill. I am disappointed in the way in which the last few comme
2025-10-29
Jamaica: Hurricane Melissa
My Lords, what are the Government prepared to do to assist children in particular? The Minister will know that, tragically, whenever these hurricanes hit, it is women and children who are affected most severely. Can she tell us what work the Government a
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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 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Chair, The BMB Corporation (investment to help deliver Sustainable Development Goals)
registered 2025-06-18
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Just Resolutions Limited (member's company previously providing consultancy services) (dormant)
registered 2025-05-01
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Party history
1997-10-30 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2007-06-28 → 2010-05-06
Attorney General
2007-05-09 → 2007-06-28
Minister of State (Home Office) (Crime Reduction)
2003-06-13 → 2007-05-08
Minister of State (Home Office) (Criminal Justice and Offender Management)
2001-06-12 → 2003-06-13
Parliamentary Secretary (Lord Chancellor's Department)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2011-10-26 → 2016-03-23
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2013-07-02 → 2016-03-23
Communications and Digital Committee
2025-10-14 → 2025-11-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee
Contact
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
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)
3 bills
1 as lead sponsor
2 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serious Crime Act 2007 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2007-01-16 | |
| Offender Management Act 2007 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2006-11-22 | |
| Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2006-07-20 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.