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The Rt Hon. the Baroness Taylor of Bolton

Labour Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Taylor of Bolton's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Taylor of Bolton. Her name is Winifred Ann Taylor, 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 3 Content(1.9%) 129 Not-Content(79.6%) 30 didn't vote(18.5%)
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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 25

2026-06-22 Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, if no one else wants to follow the noble Lord, I will add my support to the case that he is making. Like him, I raised this at Second Reading, and I agree with every word he has said, so I do not want my noble friend the Minister to think that
2026-06-08 The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)
My Lords, I am pleased to introduce this debate on the report The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator, which was published by the Industry and Regulators Committee in early December. As is often the case, we have to wait some time for
2026-06-08 The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)
That the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Industry and Regulators Committee The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (2nd Report, HL Paper 225, Session 2024–26).
2026-06-08 The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)
My Lords, I said at the beginning that there was a wealth of experience in this Room; the speeches that we have heard this afternoon prove that. Every individual person has added their own insight into the nature of the problems that we are talking about
2026-06-03 Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am tempted to follow what the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, was saying, but not quite in the way he suggested; I am tempted to follow up what he said about referees, particularly in the Scottish context, not least because my Scottish team of Moth
2026-06-03 Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I have thought of raising this with our noble friend Lord Hendy, who seems to be on top of all those issues. I will point out one other anomaly, despite the time. Literally the biggest game in English women’s football—the Women’s Cup Final—was held at
2026-06-03 Sporting Events Bill [HL]
I think the noble Lord is barking up the wrong tree. On this occasion, there were no strikes involved in those disruptions.
2026-06-03 Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, I know nothing of the detail of what was said, the circumstances or whatever, but, as someone who has attended football matches in many stadia over many years, I know that some very unpleasant things happen and we need the ability to have footb
2026-05-18 King’s Speech
My Lords, how to follow that? It is not often that a Member of this House is heard in such silence and with such reverence. It is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy, and we are all delighted to see him back in his place. We regret
2025-11-04 Power Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)
My Lords, I start by thanking everyone for their contributions, and for the fact that the report has had a generally very good reception. The debate has been quite wide-ranging, and we have gone into very granular detail on some occasions, but we have no
2025-11-04 Power Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)
I am very pleased to move that the committee takes note of our report and thank all those who have been involved in the writing of it, especially committee members—and especially those who have done a double shift today, because we had a very significant
2025-11-04 Power Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)
To move that the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Industry and Regulators Committee Power Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (1st Report, HL Paper 132).
2025-07-15 Football Governance Bill [HL]
Time is late, so I do not want to go through the whole history of Bolton Wanderers, but the noble Lord’s facts are not quite correct. What we are concentrating on here is that all clubs should have a better business approach to football and not just rely
2025-07-15 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will say a few words in support of what the Minister said this evening. It is right that we talk a little about the new arrangements for mediation and the backstop. The original amendment was overcomplex, but many of us were concerned about t
2025-06-25 Independent Schools: Tax Changes
My Lords, will my noble friend say a little more about what is happening to school rolls? Is it not a fact that, because of the declining birth rate, rolls are falling generally and there are state schools closing because of falling rolls, as well as pri
2025-03-17 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I have tabled amendments asking that Parliament should fulfil its role of scrutinising regulators across the board. I am glad that, in this one respect, my noble friend the Minister has taken that on board with this particular regulator in ter
2025-03-17 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I want to say a few words, because the whole House acknowledges that the noble Lord, Lord Birt, is trying to be constructive here. He, with his colleagues, has produced some incredibly detailed amendments, and that is partly what concerns me. I
2025-03-17 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I start by reminding the House that the Bill will not abolish parachute payments or change the architecture in the way that has just been suggested. When the noble Lord, Lord Markham, talked about the need to have confidence, so that clubs can
2025-03-11 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I want to say a few words on this amendment because I have a great deal of sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Addington, has been saying, although I am not sure that this is the vehicle for what he actually wants to do. There are many conc
2025-03-11 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I just want to reassure the noble Baroness, who was unfortunately not able to attend the FA meeting yesterday, that the FA was very explicit—and it was asked very directly—that it is content with this Bill. It assured those of us who were prese
2025-03-11 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, we have spent some seven days discussing the detail of the Bill, and I think this is probably the first time I can rise and say that I actually agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Brady. It is true that football has the power to do an awful lot
2025-01-15 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am afraid that, although the hour is late, I cannot resist saying a few words about the suggestion that we should have a sunset clause. I am somewhat surprised that the noble Lord, Lord Goodman, has presented what is a very bureaucratic way o
2025-01-15 Football Governance Bill [HL]
The noble Lord is almost suggesting that clubs of whatever size should not have a business plan. One of the things we want to encourage and develop is sustainability. There has been complacency among many clubs at different levels, such that they have no
2025-01-15 Football Governance Bill [HL]
My Lords, I just want to pick up on some of the points made. It is right that we need a proportionate system and we have to be careful in what we do. But we cannot afford to be complacent about the state of British football today. Yes, the Premier League
2025-01-15 Football Governance Bill [HL]
I am about to intervene. The noble Lord is somewhat optimistic in thinking that everything can be revealed within six months. I will make a broader point, which we are not specifically discussing tonight. The role of Parliament in holding regulators to a
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Register of Interests · 4 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.

  • Member, Advisory Panel, Thales Group UK (aerospace, defence, security)
    registered 2024-11-14 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Member, House of Lords Appointments Commission
    registered 2022-09-28 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

  • Various Football Association invitations to international and some domestic football matches, and associated hospitality
    registered 2010-05-02 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Board Room hospitality received from Bolton Wanderers Football Club, when attending football matches
    registered 2010-04-15 · amended 2025-04-05
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

1974-10-10present
Labour current

Government posts

2009-06-082010-05-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Defence and Security) (also in the Ministry of Defence)
2008-10-052010-05-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (International Defence and Security) (also in Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
2007-11-072008-10-05
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Procurement)
1998-07-272001-06-07
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
1997-05-031998-07-26
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Privy Council Office)
1977-01-191979-05-04
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

1994-08-011997-05-01
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
1994-08-011995-07-01
Shadow Secretary of State
1992-04-111994-08-01
Shadow Secretary of State

Committee memberships

1994-11-161995-11-08
Standards in Public Life
1996-10-231997-03-21
Standards and Privileges
1997-07-301999-11-11
Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee)
2001-07-302005-07-11
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
2010-12-062014-05-14
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2017-06-272022-01-19
Constitution Committee Chair +£15,235/yr
2014-06-122022-01-19
Constitution Committee
2015-03-232016-01-14
Leader's Group on Governance
2016-12-20present
Lord Speaker's committee on the size of the House
2022-01-192022-06-22
Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee
2022-06-162025-01-30
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2024-01-312026-01-27
Industry and Regulators Committee Chair +£17,806/yr
2022-06-222026-01-27
Industry and Regulators Committee
2025-12-18present
Retirement and Participation Committee Chair +£18,305/yr

Contact

Parliamentary office
taylora@parliament.uk
020 7219 5183 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Furniture Industry
Subject Group
Officer Brevia Consulting · do Different. 4 2026-07-19
Football All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
Vice Chair Fair Game 4 2027-01-04
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)

1 bills 0 as lead sponsor 1 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 Supported Royal Assent 2022-06-15
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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