The Baroness Stern CBE
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Stern's full title is The Baroness Stern CBE. Her name is Vivien Helen Stern, and she has retired from the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 19
2020-01-16
Drones: International Law
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, for arranging this timely debate. He has done the House a great service with his balanced and probing contribution.
Your Lordships’ House has shown an interest in the development of drone warfare since 2
2019-07-24
Bahrain
My Lords, on 10 July the Foreign and Commonwealth Office published an admirable paper, with a marvellous photograph of the Minister on the front. That guidance note, entitled UK Support for Human Rights Defenders, makes it clear that through its diplomat
2019-03-13
Bahrain: Human Rights
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, on securing this very important debate and on his powerful contribution. I declare my interest as an officer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights.
Following the recommendations
2018-07-24
Rendition of UK Citizens
My Lords, I declare my interest as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Abolition of the Death Penalty. As the noble Baroness will know, the APPG has for years worked for abolition, alongside the Government, and has been proud of the Gove
My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken—my co-signatories and those who supported the amendment, and those who did not. I say to them that I have never thought it was acceptable to say that one has to carry on doing dodgy business because, i
My Lords, Amendment 73 is tabled in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Kirkhope and Lord Collins, and the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer. I welcome the cross-party support this amendment has attracted. I am grateful to Mrs Kimberly Durrant, the repr
I thank all those who have spoken in support of the amendment and those who have spoken strongly against it. A debate is always very good for the brain. I thank the Minister very much for the information he has given us, for the hard work he has done at
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 69G in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, and the noble Lords, Lord Collins and Lord Kirkhope, who regrets very much that he cannot be here. The amendment continues the debates that began in what
2017-09-07
Prisons: Overcrowding
My Lords, it is indeed a great honour to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, and to have had an opportunity to hear his wise words. In preparing for this important debate I lifted down from my shelf my much annotated, very tatty and extremely
2017-07-10
Anti-corruption Strategy
My Lords, the Minister will know that four senior executives from Barclays Bank are facing criminal prosecution for wrongdoing that took place in the financial crisis of 2008, and that this is the first such prosecution. The director of the Serious Fraud
2017-06-27
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, I am very glad indeed to see the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Trafford, in her place and with the same responsibilities. Working with her on what became the Criminal Finances Act 2017 was very rewarding. That Act received Royal Assent on 27
2017-04-25
Criminal Finances Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 14 in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, and the noble Lords, Lord Rosser and Lord Kirkhope. This amendment has already been discussed in Committee and is unchanged. Since the debate in Committee, I
2017-04-03
Criminal Finances Bill
I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, which has been a cornucopia of oratory, wisdom and detailed, reliable knowledge. I am very grateful to my co-signatories for their strong support. I appreciate the words of the right reverend Prelat
2017-04-03
Criminal Finances Bill
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 167 in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, and the noble Lords, Lord Kirkhope and Lord Rosser.
The amendment, as a proposed new clause, stems from our concern to fight grand corruption and tax e
2017-04-03
Criminal Finances Bill
2017-03-09
Criminal Finances Bill
My Lords, I begin by declaring my interest as an officer of the Anti-corruption APPG. My involvement in this Bill arises from my concern about corruption—and I am most grateful to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Oxford for his remarks about the
2016-11-21
Drugs Policy
My Lords, first of all I thank my noble friend Lady Meacher for initiating this debate and also for her outstanding and very effective contribution over the past five years to the movement for reform of global drug policy. She is very well known on the wo
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Party history
1999-07-13 → 2025-12-02
Crossbench
Government posts
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Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1999-12-06 → 2003-11-20
European Union Committee
2004-11-30 → 2008-12-15
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2010-06-23 → 2015-03-30
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
2013-05-16 → 2014-02-26
Inquiries Act 2005 Committee
2014-06-12 → 2017-04-27
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 9 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones
Subject Group
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Co-Chair | — | 6 | 2021-07-18 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones and Modern Conflict
Subject Group
|
Co-Chair | — | 6 | 2023-07-18 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Conflict
Subject Group
|
Officer | Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust | 3 | 2026-07-25 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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