The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Finlay of Llandaff's full title is The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff. Her name is Ilora Gillian Finlay, 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
67 Content(41.4%)
12 Not-Content(7.4%)
83 didn't vote(51.2%)
2026-03-25
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95–137
Not-Content
2026-03-05
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193–143
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2026-03-05
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208–142
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2026-03-05
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214–142
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2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
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2026-01-05
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210–131
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132–124
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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
Compassionate Use Medicine Schemes: VAT
My Lords, do the Government recognise that it has been estimated that, for each pound invested in research, there is an approximate 25p return on that in perpetuity. Therefore, we should avoid anything which disincentivises research investment in this co
2026-06-16
Children: Physical Punishment
My Lords, do the Government recognise that this report shows quite clearly the link between a failure to protect children from abuse and poor outcomes for those children? If parents who are not coping with parenting are to access family hubs and all the
My Lords, I am absolutely delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, who has really put his finger on summarising all these amendments incredibly well. As you go through, you can look at each one as an individual case. Amendment 12 is about vulnera
I declare that I am president of the CO Research Trust and a member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. The Minister has already referred to our report. I am also one of those people who responds when there is a call for a doctor on
2026-06-15
Rare Cancers: Diagnosis and Treatment
I am grateful to the Minister for outlining what are laudable aims, but the reality is that, every year, about 67,000 people die from rare cancers. About 10,500 of those have brain tumours, and, of all those patients, many are children or young people. S
2026-06-15
Rare Cancers: Diagnosis and Treatment
To ask His Majesty’s Government what incentives they are creating to encourage pharmaceutical and medical technology industries to innovate in the diagnosis and treatment of rare cancers.
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
How many long-term claimants with severe long-term disabilities, who will never have a life devoid of dependence on disability benefits, has it been agreed will not be recalled to assessment—assessments which proved to be futile and quite damaging to the
My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Alton of Liverpool for never having stopped keeping up the pressure on enhancing our awareness of human rights, often at great personal expense to himself and his family. I am also grateful to the nobl
2026-06-04
Declining Birth Rates
My Lords, I am most grateful to my colleague, the noble Baroness, Lady Nargund, for having secured this debate, and to the noble Baroness, Lady O’Grady, for having introduced the business of intergenerational solidarity. I want to concentrate on the othe
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My noble friend Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield has been a fine mentor to the whole House. That was evident today. As we proceed without him, we must not let him down. Laws send social messages. Candour and individual accountability must improve in all secto
2026-04-21
Cancer Outcomes in the UK
My Lords, like others I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Patel for securing this debate today, which is acute myeloid leukaemia day—so it seems very appropriate. I declare my interests as a professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University a
If I may add to the list of questions, I think it might be helpful for the Minister to explain how the decisions over the size relate to the Purple Guide that the Health and Safety Executive produced, because I understand from page 114 of volume 2 of th
My Lords, I declare an interest, in that I am president of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, so it is partly with that hat on that I am asking these questions.
The Manchester Arena inquiry makes harrowing reading, and I expect that there will be
2026-04-13
Nitrous Oxide
My Lords, as the use of nitrous oxide involves the substance hitting the opioid receptors, as with heroin and other drugs, will the Government undertake education of young people in schools, for whom the addictive potential of all these substances is muc
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
In light of the fact that the noble Baroness said this would be a formal discussion, does she agree that if we are sticking with the principle of choice, autonomy and accurate information, it becomes even more important that the patient is given, as fast
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
So, to clarify, the noble and learned Lord is not allowing a provision here to say that if you have strong feelings, for instance, you will be able to ask not to be rostered to work on that shift, or on that day, or in that situation, and instead be able
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I hesitated but I want to come in on that, because I am not clear what the position is for care assistants and people who are involved in the intimate care of patients. In Australia in particular, there have been problems where staff such as c
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I do not quite understand, then, why I received a letter dated 26 March, just this week, from the Royal College of General Practitioners, requesting explicit clarification in the Bill to make it clear that there is no expectation on any doctor, including
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
What assessment was made by the Government when saying that the proposals in these amendments would limit the ability to design an optimum service in relation to the Bill, given the system in the Netherlands where SCEN doctors—the second opinion doctors—
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Noble Lords are repeatedly intervening on the different points.
As for the numbers, the estimates, based on the evidence from other countries, suggest that the estimates in the impact assessment are very low, and that the demand for assisted suicide w
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I have Amendments 190, 268, 359, 617 and 660 in this group. The crux of this group is that assisting suicide is not a medical treatment, and products to bring about the death are being used not as medications but in massive overdoses for their
2026-03-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I intervene on the noble Baroness’s comment about training. Everybody is, indeed, trained in abortion, for example, as they go through medical school, but by the time you are practising clinically and you are on a specialist register, you are no longer
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I would be delighted to raise it outside the Chamber; it was a little more complicated than those three points.
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Does the noble and learned Lord recognise that, if the earlier part of the Bill and this clause had compatible wording over the progress and disease trajectory of that individual patient, that would make it easier for patients to make a decision and much
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Can the noble and learned Lord clarify the support? If the lethal drugs are there and the person feels that they cannot take them in the form that they are presented, is the independent advocate to be involved in any alteration of the preparation, such a
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Register of Interests · 3 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.
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Consultant Physician in palliative care, Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff
registered 2010-04-14 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives research assistance from a scholar on the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Parliamentary Scholar Programme
registered 2026-01-26
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The member receives part-time research support from an employee of Living and Dying Well
registered 2023-11-23 · amended 2026-03-23
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Party history
2001-06-28 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2002-11-13 → 2007-10-30
Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I
2002-11-19 → 2007-10-30
Science and Technology Committee
2004-07-22 → 2005-07-11
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
2004-11-30 → 2005-04-07
Committee on the Assisted Dying for the terminally ill Bill
2012-05-29 → 2013-03-05
Public Service and Demographic Change Committee
2015-06-11 → 2016-02-11
National Policy for the Built Environment Committee
2019-07-01 → 2023-01-31
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2022-02-22 → present
Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords)
2023-01-31 → 2023-11-27
Integration of Primary and Community Care Committee
2024-01-31 → present
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
2025-10-14 → 2025-11-05
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
finlayi@parliament.uk
020 7219 6693 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 6693 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 17 active officership(s) · 18 historic
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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of 13 tabled
10 answered(76.9%)
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departments
2026-01-16
Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
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2026-01-16
Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
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2026-01-16
Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Health Services
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2026-01-16
Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
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2026-01-16
Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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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)
10 bills
8 as lead sponsor
2 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OFCOM (Duty regarding Prevention of Serious Self-harm and Suicide) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 3rd reading | 2022-06-06 | |
| Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2020-01-09 | |
| Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2019-10-24 | |
| Access to Palliative Care Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-07-05 | |
| Access to Palliative Care Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-06-09 | |
| Access to Palliative Care Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 3rd reading | 2015-06-01 | |
| Health Service Commissioner for England (Complaint Handling) Act 2015 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2014-07-02 | |
| Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2009-12-16 | |
| Kidney Transplant Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2007-11-28 | |
| Palliative Care Bill [HL] | — | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2006-11-16 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.