The Rt Hon. the Baroness Jay of Paddington
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Jay of Paddington's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Jay of Paddington. Her name is Margaret Ann Jay, 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
1 Content(0.6%)
30 Not-Content(18.5%)
131 didn't vote(80.9%)
2026-03-26
Not-Content
115–197
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
64–140
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
Content
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
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, I was a Member of the House when we looked at the original Bill introduced by the late Lord Joffe in 2004. I have also been Leader of this House and, over the decades, I have never experienced quite the ext
2026-03-20
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
To add to what the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, said, I very much dislike the death notices, for example, which refer to people having put up a great fight or having failed to deal with the battle, or whatever expression is used, which suggests precisely wh
2026-03-13
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, it seems to have become a regular feature of these Committee sittings that the noble Lord, Lord Deben, and I disagree—but I think we disagree with courtesy, and I hope we disagree on the basis of real understanding. However, it is extraordinary
My Lords, notwithstanding the Government’s determined position of neutrality, which the Minister has rightly said she has repeated many times, would she not accept that, once Royal Assent is given to the procedures and the Acts in Jersey and in the Isle
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am going to continue with this point, because it is a general point that there has been very limited discussion on the amendments since I have come into the House.
2026-02-27
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I know I am out of order because I was not here at the beginning of the debate on this amendment, but I feel it is important to say to the noble Lord that I was not grimacing at the point he was making.
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, does the noble Lord agree with me that one of the international facts that supports entirely the position he is taking is that, in the now 33 jurisdictions where assisted dying is allowed, it is usually the case—I cite one or two—that, followin
2026-01-30
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I wonder whether the House will listen to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, which is that she is probably the only person in the House—and certainly the only person who has spoken this morning—who has had practical experience o
2026-01-30
Arrangement of Business
My Lords, I think this is relevant to the points that have been made. If we did consider this Bill again under the Parliament Act, the amendments that this House had passed in this Session would have a far greater chance of surviving than those debated i
2026-01-23
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I must respond to that. I certainly did not accuse the noble Lord of being patronising. I said that I thought there were difficulties in health policy when we accepted some of the old—and, now, more old-fashioned—concepts in which the medical p
2026-01-23
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I was only going to say to the noble Lord that, as I am sure he will remember, I too was a member of those earlier Select Committees. I am sure in that context he will remember that the arguments, discussions and vagueness, frankly, about how o
2026-01-16
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I wonder whether the noble Lord would accept the actual evidence of one member of the medical profession who gave evidence to the Select Committee. She reflected many of the concerns that people who support the Bill agree with. She said that, when the he
2026-01-08
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I hesitate to argue with the noble Lord, but I am trying to make the points about the value of the reputation of this House, specifically in relation to this particular subject—on which over many years we have built up an authority, which I am very sad t
2026-01-08
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I do not back away from the phrase “heavily criticised”. I cannot believe that anybody in this House who has at least absorbed some of the media coverage of these debates has not accepted that there has been no general agreement about the positions that
2026-01-08
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I was one of the signatories to the email that the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, referred to. I was very happy to do that, because although I of course support the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, in his Motion, I additio
2025-12-12
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Can I ask the noble Lord, having cited the doctor Michael Mulholland as a great authority in relation to his evidence to the Select Committee, whether he also accepts what Dr Mulholland said to the Select Committee? He said:
“As GPs, we are very used
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Thornton for raising the question of other countries. Some of us here have sat on Select Committees on this subject over a large number of years; for example, I did so 20 years ago. I would not suggest tha
2025-11-14
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I of course enormously respect the experience of the noble and learned Baroness and her ability to make these judgments. I am sorry that she had to sit until 1 am. But does she feel that those decisions would have been more or less complex and
2024-07-23
King’s Speech
My Lords, I join all other noble Lords who have spoken in warmly congratulating my noble and learned friend Lord Hermer and my noble friend Lord Khan on their government appointments. My experience in your Lordships’ House, both in government and as prev
2023-11-09
King’s Speech
My Lords, I follow other noble Lords, in welcoming and supporting the measures to reduce smoking, but like the right reverend Prelate, I am most concerned this afternoon about the lack of any broad-based public health programmes in the gracious Speech. P
2021-12-02
BBC: Government Support
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for introducing his timely debate in such a comprehensive and authoritative way. Although I do not agree with many of the arguments of the noble Lord, Lord Hannan, I follow him in saying that no one has done mor
2021-10-22
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
My Lords, this is the fourth Assisted Dying Bill that I have supported in your Lordships’ House; with each one, my conviction that this is a necessary reform gets even stronger. Today, my commitment is made more passionate by one particular personal exp
2021-05-18
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord on his special suit and the two noble Baronesses who will make their maiden speeches.
This past year has certainly thrown up a whole range of important issues for both Parliament and government to confront. I am
2021-04-28
Integrated Review: Development Aid
My Lords, I am sure the Minister has registered that this well-attended debate secured by the noble Lord, Lord Alton, is the third time in the past week that your Lordships have raised deep concerns about the cuts to ODA. This is a profoundly serious mat
2021-03-16
Zimbabwe: Human Rights Abuses
My Lords, as an official Commonwealth observer at the last election in Zimbabwe, I was warned particularly about the threats posed by the new Government to women’s rights. Reports of abuses have greatly accelerated recently. Just last week, I was contact
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
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Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Occasional talks and seminars at American Universities and Further Education establishments
registered 2016-10-06 · amended 2025-04-05
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Occasional seminars at Wroxton College, Oxfordshire on Women in British Politics
registered 2016-07-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1992-07-29 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
1998-07-27 → 2001-06-06
Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
1997-05-02 → 1998-07-26
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1997-06-05 → 2001-05-11
House of Lords Offices Committee
1997-06-09 → 2001-05-11
Procedure and Privileges Committee
1998-10-06 → 2001-05-11
Liaison Committee (Lords)
1998-11-26 → 2001-02-11
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2016-05-25 → 2019-05-09
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
1998-12-15 → 2002-11-07
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2004-11-30 → 2005-04-07
Committee on the Assisted Dying for the terminally ill Bill
2010-06-22 → 2014-05-14
Constitution Committee
Chair
+£14,582/yr
2009-11-25 → 2014-05-14
Constitution Committee
2014-06-12 → 2015-02-25
Extradition Law
2015-06-08 → 2016-05-12
Communications and Digital Committee
2017-06-29 → 2018-03-20
Political Polling and Digital Media Committee
2019-06-13 → 2019-09-09
Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee
2020-06-11 → 2022-04-28
COVID-19 Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
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Historic bills (all-time)
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Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.