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The Rt Hon. the Baroness Northover

Liberal Democrat Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Northover's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Northover. Her name is Lindsay Patricia Northover, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Daily attendance allowance £5,934
14 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed £5,934
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.

Political donations made

Total donated (all years on record) £12,453
7 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor name: Baroness Lindsay Northover
Date Recipient Type EC Ref Amount
2017-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0337748 £1,661
2016-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0252178 £1,846
2015-06-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0203953 £1,977
2014-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0107362 £1,800
2013-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0093821 £1,754
2012-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0083768 £1,815
2011-09-30 Liberal Democrats · Parliamentary Party In The Lords Cash C0052682 £1,600
Showing the 7 most recent donations on record. Source: Electoral Commission donations register (search.electoralcommission.org.uk). Match confidence: unique-surname.

Ministerial activity

Records on file 7
6 meetings · 0 hospitality · 0 gifts · 1 overseas trip · 2014-01-01 → 2014-10-01

Recent meetings

Date Met with Purpose Source
2014-10-24 — Discussion of HIV/AIDS vaccine cabinet-office
2014-09-19 — Discussed the role of the fund in India cabinet-office
2014-04-01 — Discussion of Gender, Diversity and Equality Agenda cabinet-office
2014-04-01 — Discussion on International development priorities cabinet-office
2014-04-01 — Discussion of Hyper-tension sub-saharan Africa cabinet-office
2014-01-01 — Discussion of innovative design for possible use in developing world cabinet-office

Recent overseas travel

Dates Destination Purpose Total cost
— Toronto Maternal and Child Summit —
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

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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

2026-09-10 Australia: Social Media Algorithms
Does the Minister agree that the burden for safety should be with the platform rather than the user? She made reference to the Online Safety Act in terms of tackling algorithms in this way. Why has not Ofcom used those powers?
2026-09-09 Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very encouraging reply. I think that we are in agreement that there could not be a more important area. No one paid attention to the subprime market, then we had the 2008 crash. The economic and social costs are sti
2026-09-09 Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, in moving Amendment 34 I will speak to Amendments 55, 65 and 91. I will speak briefly. I thank noble Lords for their support and that of Peers for the Planet. There can be no doubt of the climate challenges we face after another summer of droug
2026-09-09 Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
2026-09-07 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
I thank the Minister, and I thank noble Lords for their support. This is clearly an area where we agree that there is a problem; we are very vulnerable in the United Kingdom. What we have in place is clearly not working sufficiently well if 60% of SMEs t
2026-09-07 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
My Lords, this amendment again comes out of the evidence submitted to our National Resilience Select Committee. It has been reported that many SMEs think that they are too small to be a target. However, as was reported at Second Reading, government re
2026-09-07 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
2026-09-07 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
I thank the Minister for her thoughtful reply and I thank other noble Lords for their support here. Clearly, we are all seeking to move in the same direction. There is a challenge and risks here that are incredibly important. Whether this is the right wa
2026-09-07 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
My Lords, all the amendments that I have put down to the Bill are derived from evidence we received on the National Resilience Select Committee. I am sorry that I was not here last week to address those that came up then, and I am very grateful to my nob
2026-09-07 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
2026-07-14 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness for introducing the Bill. From these Benches we welcome the Bill, but we feel that in a number of ways it does not go far enough. Hostile state actors, organised crime and others are increasingly targeting our sys
2026-07-13 Climate Change: Housing Insurability, Mortgage Lending and Financial Resilience
I thank the Minister for that reply. I hope he has read the adaptation report of the Climate Change Committee, in which it warns very clearly about the effects of increased flood and wildfire risk to the financial sector and the economy more generally. T
2026-07-13 Climate Change: Housing Insurability, Mortgage Lending and Financial Resilience
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the long-term implications of climate change and nature loss for housing insurability, mortgage lending and household financial resilience.
2026-07-06 International Marine Protected Area: Sargasso Sea
I appreciate that. The Sargasso Sea is extremely important for hundreds of species, so will the Government advocate for the highest level of protection, under which all industrial fishing, in particular, is banned?
2026-07-06 International Marine Protected Area: Sargasso Sea
My Lords—
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
I am grateful to the Minister. It is important that we focus on the matter in hand, what the Government are seeking to do, making sure there are no unintended consequences and taking this forward. I hear the concern from the Conservative Front Bench, but
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
My Lords, I speak briefly in support of my noble friend Lord Marks. He has put the case extremely effectively, taking from the amendment tabled by my honourable friend in the other place. Generally speaking, this is an area where there has been much cros
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
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2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
My Lords, I think the noble Lord means the International Committee of the Red Cross.
2026-06-30 National Security (State Threats) Bill
My Lords, in moving Amendment 11, I will speak also to Amendment 12A, which replaces my original Amendment 12; Amendment 13A, which replaces my original Amendment 13; Amendment 18A, which replaces Amendment 18; Amendment 19A, which replaces Amendment 19;
2026-06-29 Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, in moving Amendment 80 I shall also speak to Amendment 103. My name is also on Amendment 140, and I have no doubt that the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, will expertly present that. I also support the other amendments in this group. We experie
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 · 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 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

  • Lyonshaw Ltd (small family company)
    registered 2018-10-10 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 5: Overseas visits

  • Visit to New York City, USA, 9-10 March 2026, to attend UN Commission on the Status of Women, and associated meetings with various country delegations and UNFPA; flights, meals and accommodation costs paid by the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
    registered 2026-03-11
  • Visit to Doha, Qatar, 6-7 December 2025, to attend 23rd Doha Forum, “Diplomacy, Dialogue and Diversity”; travel and accommodation costs paid by the Doha Forum
    registered 2025-12-08
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

2000-05-01 → present
Liberal Democrat current

Government posts

2014-11-04 → 2015-05-07
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Development)
2013-10-07 → 2014-11-05
Lords Spokesperson (Women & Equalities)
2011-09-05 → 2014-11-04
Lords Spokesperson (Department for International Development)
2010-05-11 → 2015-03-04
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Opposition posts

2016-10-28 → 2021-10-06
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
2015-06-01 → 2016-10-28
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (International Development)
2002-12-09 → 2010-05-06
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (International Development)
2000-12-18 → 2002-10-10
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Health)

Committee memberships

2005-06-15 → 2009-11-12
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2012-06-19 → 2012-07-24
Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
2021-04-14 → 2023-01-31
Environment and Climate Change Committee
2023-01-31 → 2026-01-27
Science and Technology Committee
2026-01-27 → present
National Resilience Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
northoverl@parliament.uk
020 7219 8623 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 14 active officership(s) · 26 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Indonesia
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair Secretariat 4 2026-08-22
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Zambia
Country Group
Vice Chair — 8 2024-06-25
All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions
Country, Area or Region Group
Officer — 4 2027-06-25
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Angola
Country Group
Co-Chair Chatham House 5 2022-05-29
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Argentina
Country Group
Vice Chair — 11 2024-05-29
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Critical Minerals
Subject Group
Co-Chair Critical Minerals Association 4 2027-01-11
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health
Subject Group
Vice Chair — 8 2024-05-14
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mongolia
Country, Area or Region Group
Officer — 4 2027-06-02
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Qatar
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair Asia House 4 2026-08-30
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Russia
Country Group
Vice Chair — 10 2024-05-28
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development
Subject Group
Officer Bond 4 2025-05-09
Australia, New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Vice Chair — 4 2025-07-21
British Council All-Party Parliamentary Group
Subject Group
Vice Chair (Sub-Saharan Africa) The British Council 18 2024-06-12
Peru All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Vice Chair — 12 2024-08-28
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

Showing 3 of 3 tabled 3 answered(100.0%) 2 departments
2026-03-16
Department for Business and Trade
Batteries
Answered
2026-02-03
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Abortion
Answered
2026-01-15
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Developing Countries: Cervical Cancer
Answered
Source: UK Parliament Members API. The amber "interest" tag is set by Parliament's own system when the asking member has a register entry it deems related — typically a paid role or directorship in the sector being asked about. Click any "i" icon to see the full question and the department's answer.

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
Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL] Sponsored 2nd reading 2024-09-13
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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