The Baroness Hamwee
Liberal Democrat
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Hamwee's full title is The Baroness Hamwee. Her name is Sally Rachel Hamwee, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£6,678
18 days attended across 1 published month
Total claimed
£6,678
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Political donations made
Total donated (all years on record)
£3,600
3 donations across 1 distinct recipient
Matched donor names:
Baroness na Hamwee · Baroness na Hamwee · Baroness na Hamwee
| Date | Recipient | Type | EC Ref | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-30 | Liberal Democrats · London | Cash | C0018003 | £1,400 |
| 2006-12-31 | Liberal Democrats · Twickenham and Richmond | Cash | C0013496 | £1,100 |
| 2002-12-30 | Liberal Democrats · Twickenham and Richmond | Cash | C0004276 | £1,100 |
Showing the 3 most recent donations on record.
Source: Electoral Commission donations register
(search.electoralcommission.org.uk).
Match confidence: unique-surname.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
117 Content(61.9%)
28 Not-Content(14.8%)
44 didn't vote(23.3%)
2026-07-22
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64–95
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2026-07-21
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173–234
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2026-07-13
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158–239
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2026-06-09
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13–66
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2026-04-23
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152–207
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2026-04-13
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178–231
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2026-03-26
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115–197
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2026-03-12
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26–134
Not-Content
2026-03-05
Content
193–143
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2026-03-05
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194–140
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2026-03-05
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198–139
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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
Content
62–295
Not-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
2026-09-16
IPP Prisoners: Recall System
My Lords, in the work that the Government are doing towards final arrangements, will they consult families of IPP prisoners? Many of us have heard so much from the families, who understand what prisoners have gone through and what they may, or may not, b
2026-09-11
Creative Education Access Bill [HL]
My Lords, I too welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Mackenzie. I am really looking forward to the teach-ins that she can give us on these subjects. My starting point is that education should form the basis for a fulfilled life, not just passing exams. This
2026-09-08
Criminal Justice Reform
My Lords, also on IPPs, we have failed so many people. So many of those prisoners were not able to access the courses that they were supposed to undertake to qualify them to apply for parole and so on. They must have been damaged by what has happened and
My Lords, we started the week by giving a Second Reading to the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, and we end it with a debate on the JCHR report. So ethics have permeated the week, as they should, but there is quite a crossover between specific issues
2026-09-01
Public Office (Accountability) Bill
My Lords, I am a stand-in for my noble friend Lord Marks, who is sorry he cannot be here today. These Benches support the Bill. My noble friends, including a Liverpool voice, and other noble Lords will speak from involvement with various issues or scanda
2026-07-23
Prisoner Early Release Scheme
My Lords, the early release scheme came from earned progression, the concept behind David Gauke’s proposals. Progression, of course, includes rehabilitation. The Minister has already mentioned the Probation Service. The noble Lord, Lord Timpson, was clea
2026-07-17
Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL]
My Lords, this may have been one of those occasions when noble Lords felt that they should have started their speeches with, “As I was saying”. I do not think I have spoken on this subject before, although I have listened to a number of debates. My noble
My Lords, our reaction to rape, to violence against women and girls, to coercive control and to grooming has intensified over recent years, along with greater understanding of what it means to be a target, and the protection of human rights is always top
That the Bill be now read a second time.
My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. An objective of a Private Member’s Bill is to get the Government to think again about the issue, not about the words used by amateurs like me. [Laughter.] I am not sure h
2026-06-04
Declining Birth Rates
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Nargund, for her choice of subject—what a neatly symmetrical pairing it was. I wish I could have been here for the earlier debate.
I am one of the ageing—or, I admit, aged—generation, a very lucky gener
2026-06-02
Bosnia and Herzegovina
My Lords, the Minister has acknowledged rightly that we do not just close the door on history; it has a very long tail. Civilians affected by the wars in the Balkans still suffer and still need support, and that support often comes from very small aid or
2026-05-18
King’s Speech
My Lords, I wish we had extra time today in order to hear more from the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy. It is so fitting that it is he who speaks of civility, tolerance and duty of care. We will miss him.
Following the tradition of bemoaning what is not in
2026-04-27
Student Visas
My Lords, the Government are about to introduce a new independent appeals body for asylum cases. Would it not be better to focus on raising the quality of initial decisions, improving efficiency in the current tribunal system and funding legal aid adequa
My Lords, I apologise that there will be some repetition of what certain noble friends, in the best sense of the word, have said. These SIs have not surprised me but I am rather depressed, in that there is an echo in them of last week’s debate. These are
2026-04-14
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
My Lords, I do not expect that my first point will gain overwhelming sympathy, but the challenge of following the detail of changes in Immigration Rules—it is not particular to this Statement of Changes—about what is in effect, whether there is a discret
2026-03-10
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, I will focus on the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Hacking, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones. We seem to have done a bit of mini-regrouping within the group, but I checked with my noble friend Lady Brinton and I think she will wind up th
2026-03-10
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and I were members of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee of this House, which was formed only in 2020. Our first inquiry and report were on the advent of new technologies in the justice system. During t
2026-02-11
Victims and Courts Bill
The noble and learned Lord has said what I wanted to say much more sensitively and tactfully, but I will say what I was going to say.
There is a danger that lawyers of my generation— I shall just apply it to my generation and not suggest which generat
2026-02-11
Victims and Courts Bill
The noble Lord seems to be suggesting that the Victims’ Commissioner does not now engage with individual cases. My understanding is that she very much does, but to feed towards her statutory role. That is quite different from getting involved in the minu
2026-02-11
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has inevitably given us a very brief tour d’horizon of the problems of the costs and charges of the legal profession getting out of hand. Looking at the Bill over the weekend, I had to turn up the 1985 Act and write i
2026-02-11
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, it is six years since the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and I were among the members of a newly formed committee that looked at—I do not think I have got the title quite right—advanced technology in the justice system. We were concerned, am
2026-02-09
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, my noble friend quoted from a briefing from the Victims’ Commissioner, I think from when she was the London victims’ commissioner, about the costs that have been charged and the costs of transcripts for a whole case—which have perhaps been requ
2026-02-09
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, I have signed all three of my noble friend Baroness Brinton’s amendments. I will not speak to them at any length. Amendment 38 prompts me to declare an interest, having been chair of the organisation Refuge for very many years. In connection wi
2026-02-09
Victims and Courts Bill
My Lords, the noble Lord has just used the phrase “common sense”, and I think that that is what is expected by people who are affected, who know that they could look to consular services for help if they have lost a passport, but not in such a difficult
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Register of Interests · 1 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.
Nil
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No registrable interests
registered 2025-04-07
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
1991-06-06 → present
Liberal Democrat
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
2017-06-17 → 2021-04-14
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Immigration)
Committee memberships
1991-11-11 → 1994-11-03
Refreshment Sub Committee
1994-11-22 → 1997-05-07
House of Lords Offices Committee
2009-11-25 → 2014-05-14
Procedure and Privileges Committee
1997-06-09 → 2001-05-11
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2008-12-15 → 2010-04-08
Economic Affairs Committee
2010-06-09 → 2015-03-30
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
2010-07-27 → 2011-04-26
Leader's Group on Working Practices
2012-05-29 → 2013-02-26
Adoption Legislation Committee
2013-05-16 → 2014-02-26
Inquiries Act 2005 Committee
2013-10-28 → 2013-12-16
Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill [HL]
2014-06-12 → 2015-02-25
Extradition Law
2026-03-03 → present
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2017-07-19 → 2019-07-01
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2015-07-16 → 2017-04-27
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2019-07-01 → 2021-03-31
European Union Committee
2019-07-02 → 2020-04-23
EU Justice Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2021-03-31
EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee
2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31
Justice and Home Affairs Committee
Chair
+£15,928/yr
2024-01-24 → 2025-03-28
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee
2025-01-30 → present
Constitution Committee
2026-01-27 → present
Numeracy for Life Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
hamwees@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 7 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention
Subject Group
|
Officer | Medical Justice | 4 | 2027-04-02 |
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
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of 16 tabled
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departments
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
1 bills
1 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conduct of Undercover Policing and Surveillance Operatives Bill [HL] | Lead | Committee stage | 2026-06-02 |
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)
6 bills
5 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conduct of Undercover Policing and Surveillance Operatives Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2026-06-02 | |
| Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | Committee stage | 2024-09-02 | |
| Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-01-09 | |
| Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-06-27 | |
| Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2017-01-11 | |
| Missing Persons Guardianship Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2016-06-14 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.