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The Baroness Brown of Silvertown

Labour Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Brown of Silvertown's full title is The Baroness Brown of Silvertown. Her name is Lyn Carol Brown, 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 4 Content(2.5%) 126 Not-Content(77.8%) 32 didn't vote(19.8%)
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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

2026-06-01 For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers
My Lords, the code, read alongside the building regulations, creates conditions in which anyone may feel entitled to challenge anyone in a single-sex facility whose appearance does not satisfy them. Can the Minister point to any evidence that trans peopl
2026-05-20 Youth Justice
Can my noble friend the Minister talk a little more about bail fostering? In my dealings with the parents of children who were caught up in county lines, one of the biggest issues they had was getting the child away from the pernicious behaviours of the
2026-04-22 Burial Provision in England and Wales
My Lords, one of the hardest things to do as an MP is meet with a bereaved parent. It is even worse if they tell you that they are worried about the funeral costs for their child. Can I take this opportunity to ask my noble friend the Minister whether al
2026-03-24 Renters’ Rights Act: Definition of Court Readiness
My Lords, some of the worst cases I had as an MP were to do with housing. We had children who had to move home every six months, absolutely wrecking their life chances. They were unable to stay in the same schools or with the same friends unless they tra
2026-03-06 International Women’s Day
My Lords, what a magnificent number of wonderful maiden speeches—a bevy of brilliant new Baronesses. It has been absolutely fabulous. For my contribution, I will raise how gender inequality exacerbates food insecurity around the world. In doing so, I
2026-02-26 Equality and Human Rights Commission
My Lords, in the Good Law Project v the EHRC, Mr Justice Swift described the statutory framework as providing a minimum requirement and not a “ceiling”. How will the Government work with the EHRC to ensure that the code reflects this proportionality-base
2026-02-26 Equality and Human Rights Commission
My Lords—
2026-02-26 Equality and Human Rights Commission
My Lords—
2026-02-11 Court Reporting Data
My Lords, I know my noble friend the Minister will agree that it was utterly unacceptable for the company concerned to release personal information about vulnerable victims and witnesses without their permission or the permission of the department. As sh
2026-01-09 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 51 and others would require the providers of assisted dying services to ensure that all persons seeking such services have discussed the range of end-of-life options available to them with a palliative care specialist. The Gover
2025-11-27 Crime and Policing Bill
I believe I get another chance to speak. I am grateful to all contributors to my amendment today. I can tell the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, that I tried, but obviously not impactfully enough, to talk about the complexities involved and the differences be
2025-11-27 Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, this is the first amendment I have moved in your Lordships’ House and I hope I do it some justice because, in just one year, there were nine murders of young people associated with the pernicious drug trade colloquially known as county lines. A
2025-11-27 Crime and Policing Bill
2025-11-27 Equality Act 2010: Supreme Court Judgment
As the Whip for the Equality Act 2010, can my noble friend the Minister clarify the next steps in the statutory process and how the Government will ensure that, when the code returns to Parliament, it will be legally sound, proportionate and practical fo
2025-11-27 Equality Act 2010: Supreme Court Judgment
My Lords—
2025-11-18 Election Law
My Lords, over 6 million eligible UK citizens are not signed up to vote. What steps are the Government taking towards automatic voter registration?
2025-11-04 Sudan: Protection of Civilians
We all know that part of the problem in Sudan is that what is going on is being funded by outside actors who have their own skin in the game and their own political and economic motivations. Can the Minister assure me that we are using our position to pu
2025-10-20 Healthcare Provision: Inequalities
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of inequalities in the provision and experience of healthcare among different population groups; and what plans they have to address this.
2025-10-16 Starvation as a Weapon of War
My Lords, I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity to raise an important issue that affects millions of people around the world. Today is World Food Day, and this year’s theme calls for global collaboration to create a peaceful, sustainable, prosper
2025-10-16 Starvation as a Weapon of War
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of starvation as a weapon of war globally, and what steps they are taking to ensure that international humanitarian law is upheld in this regard.
2025-09-09 Child Houses for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
I so welcome that commitment, but 500,000 children are sexually abused each year in England and Wales. Seven years ago, this single pilot centre was created in London, providing cost-effective wraparound healthcare, therapy and access to justice under on
2025-09-09 Child Houses for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to support the opening of more child houses in England, on the model of The Lighthouse, to provide services to child victims of sexual abuse.
2025-07-17 Tackling Unsustainable Debt
My Lords, the UK High Court has ordered South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, to pay $657 million in debt servicing to a for-profit bank. That is half its annual income. Surely we have the power and moral responsibility to prevent this happe
2025-07-17 Tackling Unsustainable Debt
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made towards tackling unsustainable debt in cooperation with partners in the global South, as set out in the Labour Party Manifesto 2024.
2025-06-19 Social Housing
My Lords, homelessness and housing costs are driving factors in both child poverty and ever-escalating costs of homelessness. My council alone is spending £60 million a year—a figure that is rising—to tackle homelessness. Newham and other councils have d
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 3: Land and property

  • Part-owner of residential property in Cumbria from which rental income is received
    registered 2025-01-27 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Joint owner of commercial property in Bavaria, Germany, from which rental income is received
    registered 2025-01-27 · 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

2005-05-05present
Labour current

Government posts

2009-06-102010-05-06
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

2021-12-042024-05-30
Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs)
2020-04-102021-12-04
Shadow Minister (Justice)
2018-01-122020-04-10
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
2016-10-142018-01-12
Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Policing)
2015-09-182016-06-28
Shadow Minister (Home Office)
2013-10-072015-09-18
Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government)
2010-10-082013-10-07
Opposition Whip (Commons)

Committee memberships

2005-12-052006-06-27
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee
2006-06-272007-01-15
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
2007-11-142007-11-18
Crossrail Bill
2026-01-27present
European Affairs Committee

Contact

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

APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Disability
Subject Group
Officer Disability Rights UK 4 2026-09-14
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equitable Governance
Subject Group
Officer Women on Boards CIC 4 2027-01-08
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 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Child Criminal Exploitation Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2021-12-15
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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