The Baroness Blake of Leeds CBE
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Blake of Leeds's full title is The Baroness Blake of Leeds CBE. Her name is Judith Vivienne Blake, 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
5 Content(3.1%)
156 Not-Content(96.3%)
1 didn't vote(0.6%)
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publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-06-22
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, for introducing this group of amendments, seconded by the noble Lord, Lord Markham. I express my gratitude to all noble Lords taking part today, and say to the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, that I would hav
2026-06-15
Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, before we start debate on the first group, I rise to remind the House of the rules on declaring interests. Noble Lords should declare any relevant financial interest the first time they speak at each stage of a Bill. This means that, in Committ
That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 20 May be approved.
Relevant document: 3rd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Considered in Grand Committee on 10 June.
2026-06-11
Welfare Reforms and Youth Unemployment
I remind the House that this is a time-limited debate. Any extra time Members take will be taken off the Front-Bench response.
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I probably do not have enough time in my short answer to go into all the initiatives, but I assure noble Lords that every Best Start Family Hub will have a Best Start inclusion practitioner. An enormous amount of resource is going into making sure that t
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I am delighted to hear the noble Lord reference Ann and the brilliant work that has been done for many years. The whole principle of Sure Start was the universal approach, bringing together all sorts of people and not focusing on just one sector. Everyon
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I am tempted to answer with a simple and straight yes. My noble friend speaks absolute sense on this agenda. I want to highlight the devastation to provision that she outlines: between 2010 and 2022, 1,300 Sure Start centres closed; by 2024, one in three
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
The noble Lord raises an important point. That is why the programme is committed to initially providing a hub within every local authority, expanding over the next two years to 1,000 hubs opening, recognising the diversity of need and that local areas wi
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I recognise the noble Lord’s real commitment in this area and his work over the years. I stress that there are good examples of hubs providing support for families with teenagers, such as in Coventry, where over 400 young people were brought together wit
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
My Lords, we are investing over £900 million in the Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies programmes, with an ambition for 1,000 hubs by 2028. New guidance published on 30 March outlines delivery expectations. While there will be a focus on pregnancy
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I am happy to have a discussion with my noble friend but caution that family hubs will be working with all those who care for children and young people, including fathers. We have to make sure that the environment in those hubs is supportive and picks u
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
I congratulate the noble Baroness on taking the opportunity to bring one of her passions into this broader debate. We understand the problems, and other departments are picking that up and taking it forward. I would not like to comment further at this st
2026-06-10
Best Start Family Hubs
Improved reporting is a mission for all of us, but most of all it is important to collect the data, as the noble Baroness suggests, and make sure that we use it. Running alongside the family hub model is the Youth Matters programme. Most important in thi
2026-06-04
Fertility Treatment Regulation
I am delighted to say that I will pass on my noble friend’s comments to the noble Baroness, Lady Merron. As I said, she will follow up on further comments that he has made today. I was struck by the statistics that I looked at and that my noble friend ha
2026-06-04
Fertility Treatment Regulation
My Lords, I am very pleased to respond to this debate, particularly regarding the adequacy of law on the regulation of fertility treatment. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, for raising this topical and important matter and for her thoughtful and w
I assure my noble friend that I will pass on her comments to my noble friend Lady Merron, who brought together the women’s health strategy, such an important piece of work and absolutely relevant in dealing with health inequalities and inequities. We kno
I am very willing to take the noble Lord’s advice, and I will seek out a copy as soon as I can after this session.
I was reading an article about this very subject just this morning, and it is fascinating. I do not think we really know the half of what the impact of these drugs is going to be on the wider health of people. So yes, we need to keep a very close eye on
The basis for me, and I hope the noble Lord agrees, is that we need much more robust co-creation at local level with different parts of the system coming together—health with local authority—bringing together the funding streams and making sure that they
The noble Lord is right: there has been a real increase in awareness of the cost to the economy and the personal cost to those who become carers. I would like to reassure him that the focus on research from this Government is intense, but we must make su
The noble Baroness is absolutely right and, if we stay as we are, the projected figures moving forward to 2040 are, frankly, terrifying. I recognise what she is saying. Do not forget that grandchildren spend so much time with their grandparents and often
The noble Baroness has touched on a really important issue. There is an enormous amount of research going into this area, for very obvious reasons. This is one area that would make so much sense, and I am sure it has been picked up. What is important abo
I thank the noble Baroness. I will just reflect on exactly what she has said as it is so important. We know that even without a definite diagnosis, so many preventive interventions could be made. If the early signs are there, they should be flagged up, a
I thank my noble friend for her tireless work and dedication to this area. I want to reassure her that in developing the MSF we will consider what interventions should be supported to improve diagnosis, and a public information campaign will be in the mi
My Lords, every person living with dementia, alongside their friends, families and carers, has their own unique and important story. The modern service framework for frailty and dementia will consider what interventions should be supported to improve dem
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Party history
2021-02-01 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2024-07-11 → present
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Opposition posts
2023-02-21 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Energy and Net Zero)
2023-02-21 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Business and Trade)
2021-12-04 → 2023-02-20
Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and International Trade)
2021-09-19 → 2021-12-03
Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government)
2021-09-19 → 2021-12-03
Shadow Spokesperson (Housing)
2021-05-18 → 2023-10-26
Opposition Whip (Lords)
2021-05-18 → 2021-09-18
Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government)
2021-05-18 → 2021-09-18
Shadow Spokesperson (Housing)
Committee memberships
2024-07-22 → present
Finance Committee (Lords)
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 6 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prepayment Meters
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 11 | 2024-06-01 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | — | 9 | 2024-08-28 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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