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The Baroness Whitaker

Labour Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Whitaker's full title is The Baroness Whitaker. Her name is Janet Alison Whitaker, 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.

Party history

1999-08-05present
Labour current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2001-07-032003-11-20
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2003-03-242003-07-31
Draft Corruption Bill (Joint Committee)
2007-11-152008-07-07
Intergovernmental Organisations Committee
2009-05-112009-07-16
Draft Bribery Bill (Joint Committee)
2015-06-112016-02-11
National Policy for the Built Environment Committee
2017-06-292018-03-13
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 Committee
2018-05-172019-03-19
Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee
2019-06-202019-07-23
Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2020-12-152021-03-08
Highgate Cemetery Bill [HL] Committee
2024-01-31present
Environment and Climate Change Committee

Contact

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

APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 10 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
Subject Group
Co-Chair Friends, Families and Travellers 4 2027-01-04
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties
Subject Group
Vice Chair Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists 3 2026-07-12
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Baha'i Faith
Subject Group
Co-Chair Office of Public Affairs, Baha'i Community of the UK 4 2027-01-03
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

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)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
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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