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The Baroness Pinnock

Liberal Democrat Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Pinnock's full title is The Baroness Pinnock. Her name is Kathryn Mary Pinnock, 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.

Political donations made

Total donated (all years on record) £5,200
3 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name: Baroness Kathryn Pinnock
Date Recipient Type EC Ref Amount
2017-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0337746 £1,800
2016-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0252173 £1,800
2015-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0211002 £1,600
Showing the 3 most recent donations on record. Source: Electoral Commission donations register (search.electoralcommission.org.uk). Match confidence: unique-surname.

Lords votes · 2026

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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

2026-06-16 Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026
I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but that is not the question I asked. The order does not say “the top two”; it just says “the candidates remaining” without defining what that should mean. I assumed, as has the Minister, that that means the top two,
2026-06-16 Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026
My Lords, methinks the previous speakers on the Conservative Benches do protest too much. First, I remind the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, that it was the Conservative Government, I believe, who introduced the supplementary vote in the first place. So that
2026-06-15 Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, on Clause 6, I have a contrary view to that of the noble Lord, Lord Jamieson. I start by reminding the Committee that I have a registered interest as a councillor on Kirklees Council, which directly manages council housing in the borough. Th
2026-06-15 Social Housing Bill [HL]
The Minister has provoked me now. All those are positive moves, but how much do they add up to? That is the question. The enormous sum of money that the Government have made available for affordable—I hate that word—and social housing adds up to 180,000
2026-06-11 Sustainable Drainage Systems
My Lords, to continue from the previous question, large underground attenuation tanks are often used in residential developments as their answer to sustainable drainage. Can the Minister tell us what consideration has been given for the water that is sto
2026-06-01 Social Housing Bill [HL]
Well, my Lords, that has started the debate on this important Bill in a rather polarised way. I have to say that I was a bit disappointed in the response from the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Bybrook, who used some of the rhetoric of pointing fingers of
2026-04-14 Grenfell Tower Memorial (Expenditure) Bill
My Lords, this has been an incredibly moving debate; in particular, the contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Roe of West Wickham, who shared his practical experience at some personal cost, I think. The noble Lord has helped us all to understand the conte
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Well, it depends whether noble Lords regard land held in public trust for public benefit as important. If noble Lords do not, then they are probably lucky in having land to enjoy—whereas many people living in the communities represented by those in the o
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
They are likely not to have the power to agree to have a debate on the amendment as an entity. Considering that the Government are supporting this amendment, it is likely to be included within the Bill as a whole. The amendment as an entity will not be d
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
I shall start again. We have an amendment signed by three noble Lords who have, in their usual lawyerly way, made a powerful case for one side of the argument. Here I am, however, to speak up for the community in a debate on a Bill labelled in part the “
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, we have had three—
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, we have had nearly an hour of debate on this very important group of amendments, which is at the heart of the community empowerment part of the Bill. The various issues that have been raised—cultural issues, playing fields, community buildings,
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, earlier we discussed the words “community empowerment” in the title of the Bill. We have not had sufficient discussion about what that will mean and how it will be included in the Bill and made a reality for communities. The word “empowerment”
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I am pleased that we have had this debate on this group of amendments about parish and town councils, but I am very disappointed in her response. She cited the community governance review as an example of
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, this group of amendments neatly follows the previous group as it concerns further empowerment to be strengthened for the most local tier of our democracy. Amendment 195 in my name would ensure that Governments had a responsibility to maximise g
2026-04-13 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2026-03-23 Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net: Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026
My Lords, I draw the Grand Committee’s attention to my interest as a councillor on Kirklees Council. This is a very technical measure and a bit of a mixed bag. The reset of the business rates retention system is long overdue and welcome. For too long,
2026-03-23 Sussex and Brighton Combined County Authority Regulations 2026
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introduction to this statutory instrument, one in a series of statutory instruments creating county combined authorities that we have discussed over several months. I start with what the Minister said about the p
2026-03-05 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, the difficulty the public have with the word “consultation” is that they often dismiss it as being a mere sop by those who want to change the order of things, whatever that might be. Consultation is frequently used; it is a basic part of the p
2026-03-05 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
I was making a point about public consultation. Since the land is held by a trust for public benefit and for the public good, it seems to me that some consideration should be given to giving the people who benefit from that trust—the community; I am sure
2026-03-05 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, I now have to remember where I left off.
2026-03-05 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Banner, has returned to this issue, which was the subject of debate during the then Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Then, the amendment in his name concerned only the Wimbledon Park Community Trust. That amendment did not
2026-03-03 Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2026
I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but I feel very strongly about the use of the phrase “affordable housing”. Affordable housing is, by definition, not affordable. The broad definition of affordability for rent is 80% of the market rent, which, for mo
2026-03-03 Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2026
My Lords, my noble friend Lady Thornhill set out the case for the Government to rethink their decision to freeze local housing allowance. She set it out superbly, with all the consequences that will occur as a result of a further year’s freeze on local h
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

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.

  • Elected Councillor, Kirklees Council
    registered 2014-10-29 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 3: Land and property

  • House in Huddersfield, from which rental income is received
    registered 2014-10-29 · 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

2014-09-23present
Liberal Democrat current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

2024-07-05present
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
2021-09-192024-07-04
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government)
2016-10-282021-09-18
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government)

Committee memberships

2015-06-122019-07-02
EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee
2020-02-132023-01-31
Public Services Committee

Contact

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

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 4 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage and Regeneration
Subject Group
Vice Chair Institute of Historic Bulilding Conservation 4 2025-01-10
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

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Leaseholder Remediation (Building Safety) Bill [HL] Lead 2nd reading 2026-06-09
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 3 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Leaseholder Remediation (Building Safety) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2026-06-09
Traffic Management (Amendment) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2020-01-27
Traffic Management (Amendment) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2019-10-17
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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