The Baroness Sherlock OBE
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Sherlock's full title is The Baroness Sherlock OBE. Her name is Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, 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.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
41
41 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
0 overseas trips
· 2024-07-01 → 2026-03-31
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 41
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | — | Keynote speaker at Employer Symposium | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-01-30 | — | Meeting to discuss Child Maintenance Service policy and operations | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-01-29 | — | Meeting to discuss Child Maintenance Service policy and operations | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-05-20 | One Parent Families Scotland, Fife Gingerbread, and Institute for Public Policy Research | meeting to provide an update on the second stage of the "Transforming child maintenance project" | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-05-08 | Church of England, Alvaston Churches Together, Derby City Mission, Jubilee Debt Project, Food4Thought Alliance, Padley Centre (YMCA) | Roundtable with faith organisations in local areas to discuss work they do in the community | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-05-01 | Marie Curie, Childhood Bereavement network, Widowed and Young | Introductory meeting with Bereavement charities to discuss Bereavement Support and Tell us Once Service | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-30 | Bliss | Introductory meeting with Bliss to discuss support for families of babies in neonatal care and to discuss Bliss' priorities | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-02 | Pension Protection Fund | Attended event hosted by pension protection fund | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-02 | Fair Chance Alliance | Introductory meeting to discuss how to increase fair chance hiring to benefit those furthest away from labour market and working with employers to hire people with criminal convictions | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-04-02 | Domestic Abuse Commissioner | Quarterly meeting with domestic abuse commissioner to discuss current DWP priorities | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-03-21 | Bishop of Leicester, Bishop of Manchester, Bishop of Huddersfield, Bishop of Bedford, Bishop of Barking, Bishop of Warrington, Acting Bishop of Ely, Bishop of York, Deputy head of Parliamentary Affairs in the Church of England, Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Plymouth, Bishop of London | Meeting with Church of England Bishops to discuss the Green Paper and impacts | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-03-04 | Methodist Church, Let's End Poverty | Meeting with Let's End Poverty movement to hear from people who have experienced poverty and for their insight and experience to be embedded in the policy-making process from the outset | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-03-04 | One Parent Families Scotland, Fife-Gingerbread, Institute of Public Policy Research | Meeting to discuss the "transforming child maintenance" project and their findings from the interim report "Child Maintenance and its impact on child poverty and financial security for single parent families" | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-27 | Gingerbread | Meeting to discuss Gingerbread's report "Fix the CMS" | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-13 | Refugee Council | Introductory meeting to discuss the support provided to asylum seekers and refugees | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-12 | Starling Bank, Nationwide, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Trustee Savings Bank, Santander | Meeting with Financial service to discuss the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-10 | Surviving economic abuse | Introductory meeting with the organisation to discuss the work of the organisation | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-06 | Information Commissioners Office | Meeting to discuss the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-06 | Crisis | Introductory meeting with Crisis | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2025-02-04 | Maternity Action, Women's Budget group | Introductory meeting to discuss the organisation's priorities, campaigns and asks of the government | department-for-work-pensions |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
176 divisions
5 Content(2.8%)
149 Not-Content(84.7%)
22 didn't vote(12.5%)
2026-07-22
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2026-04-27
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2026-02-04
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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
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, for introducing her Motion. I am also grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions, and I appreciate their many kind words. If I had even a moment’s thought that they meant I would
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
My Lords, the law is clear at the moment. The state pension age is now gradually rising from 66 to 67. That began in April 2026, and it will finish in March 2028. What I can say about the state pension age is that, as legislated by the previous Governmen
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
Yes. The single best guarantee of a happy retirement is a happy working life where people have the opportunity to earn enough money and to save enough money. We absolutely are doing huge amounts—I will not recite it all here as I have done many times be
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
I am grateful—I will never be so appreciated ever again, so I am really going to enjoy this session. My noble friend raises an important point. In a sense, it is up to individual schemes what their rules are for indexing their pensions. The minimum legal
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
The noble Lord raises an excellent point. In fact, we have seen a significant drop. In the 1990s, roughly half of people who were self-employed were saving for a pension; it is now under 20%. There are more self-employed people now and there are differen
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
My Lords, I am not pre-empting anything that the commission will say, but the Government are very aware of the position of people who have terminal illnesses. As the noble Baroness of course knows very well, we have looked at some of the rules around how
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
I can indeed, and I am grateful to my noble friend for his welcome back. He will forgive me, as I will not be able to give him any specific answers on the future rates of the state pension; if I pre-empt the Budget, I think I may be the shortest-living M
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
My Lords, last year, the Government revived the Pensions Commission to examine how to improve retirement outcomes for future generations. Its interim report, published on 19 May 2026, sets out key challenges with the current system and priorities for the
2026-07-22
Pensions Commission
I now realise that I did a terrible job, because repeatedly during the passage of the Pension Schemes Act I tried to explain why that was not right, and I utterly failed—I will have one last go. The Government set out a pensions investment review to look
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
The noble Baroness raises an excellent question about schools and education, and I reassure her that my department is working very closely with the Department for Education to address it. I am sure that she has read the interim report from Alan Milburn,
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
The noble Lord raises an important point. I reassure him that the Government are completely committed to delivering on the manifesto commitment to introduce mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for large employers. I know that my colleagu
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
What I have been trying to describe is our intention to make sure we have personalised support. The noble Baroness raises an important question. She will know, from having seen the work done and from the early report from the Department of Health, which
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
The noble Baroness makes an extremely important point. One reason we have focused the nature of our support through the connect to work specialist programme, which works with people who are disabled or have a health condition, is because everyone is dif
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
The noble Baroness is absolutely right to focus on support. Alan Milburn made the point very strongly about the need—across the system, not just in employment—to engage with support and early prevention work rather than just dealing with the outcomes of
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
I am grateful to my noble friend and will be delighted to talk to him about examples and take them back to the department. He is right to focus on the importance of supporting employers; there are many who want to do the right thing but may not know how
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
My Lords, the Government are committed to supporting autistic people into employment, including through targeted specialist support. Our £1 billion connect to work programme includes a supported employment pathway for neurodivergent people and is now liv
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
The noble and learned Lord asks an excellent question; I would love to hear after this who the employer is and see what we can learn from them. I would be especially interested to know whether that employer is a member of the Disability Confident scheme.
2026-06-25
Unemployment: People with Autism
I must confess to my noble friend that I have not seen it, but I will seek it out. His point is really important. If we can get young autistic people—indeed, any autistic people—into work, I know that many employers will find that there is a huge benefit
2026-06-18
Child Poverty
My Lords, let me add my words of appreciation to my noble friend Lady Lister, who must at this point be blushing from the compliments showered upon her, but they are very well deserved. I am thrilled that she got this debate and introduced it so well. I
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
I will not dwell on the point that the challenge we are facing is the challenge the previous Government faced, and we did not invent telephone assessments.
The noble Baroness raises an important point. The truth is that it depends on the case. The job
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken and to the Public Services Committee, especially the former chair, my noble friend Lady Morris of Yardley, for her serious work on this. I am also grateful for the detailed and constructive repor
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
My noble friend raises a very important point—and one that I suspect at least maybe half of the House could empathise with in some way. I reassure my noble friend that the Government take menopause support seriously. We have been doing work specifically
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
These were long-term contracts and were signed only in late 2023 and took effect shortly after, but we are not simply taking that as meaning that we cannot do anything. We are in close negotiations with all the contractors to look at how we can drive up
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
I am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising such an important point and for her work and expertise in this area. Our job is to make sure that we assess the right people at the right time. There is always a danger when debating this that we forget the
2026-06-08
Health-related Benefits Assessments
That is so often correct, I have to say to my noble friend. In this case, we are in a situation where we are doing all we can to drive up face-to-face assessments. The most important question is that we get everyone into work who possibly can work. The b
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Party history
2010-06-17 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2024-12-17 → present
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
2024-07-09 → 2024-12-17
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Opposition posts
2021-05-18 → 2022-05-10
Shadow Spokesperson (Education)
2015-05-27 → 2020-04-15
Opposition Senior Whip (Lords)
2013-10-08 → 2024-07-05
Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)
2013-03-18 → 2015-05-27
Opposition Whip (Lords)
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
Parliamentary office
sherlockm@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 2 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 2 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
1 bills
0 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Act 2026 | Supporter | Royal Assent | 2026-01-08 |
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)
4 bills
0 as lead sponsor
4 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Act 2026 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2026-01-08 | |
| Universal Credit Act 2025 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-06-18 | |
| Pension Schemes Act 2026 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-06-05 | |
| Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2025-01-22 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.