The Rt Hon. the Baroness Smith of Malvern
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Smith of Malvern's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Smith of Malvern. Her name is Jacqui Smith, 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
222
218 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
4 overseas trips
· 2024-07-01 → 2026-03-31
Total overseas travel cost
£36,476
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 218
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-13 | — | Pre-briefing stakeholders ahead of the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy announcements on 16 March | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-13 | — | Pre-briefing stakeholders ahead of the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy announcements on 16 March | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-13 | — | Pre-briefing stakeholders ahead of the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy announcements on 16 March | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-13 | British Chamber of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry, Federation of Small Businesses, Institute of Directors, Make UK | Pre-briefing stakeholders ahead of the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy announcements on 16 March | department-for-education |
| 2026-03-13 | Small Business Britain, Enterprise Nation, Family Business UK, Small Business Commissioner, Be the Business | Pre-briefing stakeholders ahead of the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy announcements on 16 March | department-for-education |
| 2026-03-13 | Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Logistics UK, Federation of Master Builders, British Retail Consortium, Hospitality, Business in the Community, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development | Pre-briefing stakeholders ahead of the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy announcements on 16 March | department-for-education |
| 2026-03-06 | — | Interview about announcement of new qualificatioins as part of post-16 reforms, including V Levels | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-05 | — | Ministerial updates on the construction skills package delivered to the Board meeting | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-05 | Construction Skills Mission Board | Ministerial updates on the construction skills package delivered to the Board meeting | department-for-education |
| 2026-03-04 | — | Qualification Reform Roundtable | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-04 | Association of Colleges, Sixth Form Colleges Association, Confederation of Schools Trusts, Universities UK | Qualification Reform Roundtable | department-for-education |
| 2026-03-03 | — | Pre-meet ahead of the Construction Skills Mission Board's Board Meeting | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-03-03 | Construction Skills Mission Board | Pre-meet ahead of the CSMB's Board Meeting | department-for-education |
| 2026-02-26 | — | To discuss qualifications reform | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-02-26 | — | Discussion of the Resolution Foundation's work on NEET young people (Not in Education, Employment or Training) | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-02-26 | Gatsby | To discuss qualifications reform | department-for-education |
| 2026-02-26 | Resolution Foundation | Discussion of the Resolution Foundation's work on NEETs | department-for-education |
| 2026-02-25 | — | Protecting public money roundtable | department-for-work-pensions |
| 2026-02-25 | Buckinghamshire New University, University of Suffolk, Leeds Trinity University, Oxford Brookes University, Anglia Ruskin University, University for the Creative Arts, University of West London, University of Northampton, London Metropolitan University, University of Greater Manchester, St Mary's University Twickenham, De Montfort University, New College Durham, Ravensbourne University London, Falmouth University, University of East London, Staffordshire University | Protecting public money roundtable | department-for-education |
| 2026-02-24 | — | Bilateral meeting to discuss UK Civil Society Women's Alliance (UKCSWA)s priorities and understand their key concerns | department-for-work-pensions |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-08 → 2026-03-11 |
New York City, New York, USA
Car, plane
|
To attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) as leader of the UK Envoy. | £9,824 |
| 2026-03-08 → 2026-03-11 |
New York City, New York, USA
Car, scheduled flight
|
To attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) as leader of the UK Envoy | £9,824 |
| 2025-10-30 → 2025-10-31 |
Johannesburg; South Africa
Scheduled flight, train, car
|
To attend the G20 Empowerment of Women Ministerial meeting | £8,771 |
| 2024-10-28 → 2024-11-02 |
Fortaleza, Brazil
Scheduled flight
|
To attend the G20 Education Conference and UNESCO 2024 Global Education Meeting | £8,058 |
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
1 Content(0.6%)
107 Not-Content(60.8%)
68 didn't vote(38.6%)
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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
2026-07-23
Creative Industries: Qualifications
My Lords, I start by thanking my noble friend Lady Keeley for introducing this debate, and noble Lords around the House for congratulating me on maintaining my role. I am absolutely delighted about it, not least because what would I do on a Thursday aft
That the draft Regulations and Order laid before the House on 18 May and 1 June be approved.
Relevant document: 3rd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Considered in Grand Committee on 14 and 15 July.
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
I am sorry if my noble friend thinks that I have not looked enthusiastic about this. I was emphasising the progress that this Government are making in ensuring that qualified music teachers are in our schools, including through considerable investment. I
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
This lady only got as far as grade 7, I am afraid—I am grade 6 in cello. The noble Lord makes an important point about the use of volunteers, but the key issue is whether we have the quality of teachers to give our children a strong music education. The
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
Tax reliefs are of course the purview of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am sure the Chancellor—whoever they might be—will be listening very carefully to my noble friend’s argument about how we can encourage as much participation in m
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
The noble Lord is absolutely right. Schools provide children who cannot access it through private means the opportunity to benefit from music and instrumental education. Through the national enrichment framework that the Government recently published, we
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
Every year, we review the recruitment trajectory for different subjects. Given the need to safeguard public money and ensure we are spending it efficiently, and given that we have had a 55% increase in recruitment to initial music teacher training and th
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
Oh dear. We are definitely investing £76 million annually in music hubs, which of course means that the 43 music hubs can continue their important work to help children, regardless of background, to access musical education, by providing instruments and
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
My Lords, alongside improved teacher retention, 369 music teacher trainees started training last year—a 55% increase compared to academic year 2023-24. Music teachers are a key part of our pledge for 6,500 additional teachers and we are making good progr
2026-07-20
Music Teachers: Recruitment
We look at the subjects to be covered by the bursary on the basis of need and difficulty in recruitment. Given the encouraging improvements in music teacher recruitment over recent years, we have decided not to continue the bursary this year. My noble fr
My Lords, I thank the House for some really interesting and wide-ranging contributions today, and the noble Baroness, Lady Evans, for bringing this debate to the House this afternoon. If it is a Thursday afternoon, it must be a debate on education, emplo
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
First, I would say that the figures that the noble Lord cites about excess deaths from heat are obviously very worrying. Not all of those, clearly, would be related to workplaces. It is not true to say that there is no law or no ability to take enforceme
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
I know that my colleagues in the MHCLG are concerned about this issue. They understand that, as climate risks intensify, integrating adaptation into home upgrade policy is essential to mitigate overheating and other climate-related impacts. The Warm Home
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
Having learned more than I thought I was going to know about workplaces and excessive heat, I am afraid that that was not one of the bits of revision: so, if it is okay, I will write to the noble Lord on that question.
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
I know that this is something that my noble friend has raised on numerous occasions, quite rightly. That is the reason why the Health and Safety Executive is and will be engaged in a consultation on improving guidance. Guidance, of course, already exist
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
Obviously, the responsibility for ensuring the safety of their workforce rests directly with employers. The HSE provides important guidance about how to ensure that that happens. I do not believe it covers the point about wearable tech that the noble Ear
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
I suspect, without being an expert on this, that one reason is that for most of the year we do not need to use them. Therefore, I think it is not unreasonable of government, certainly with respect to public buildings, to take a proportionate approach to
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
My Lords, we recognised in our manifesto and our Make Work Pay plan concerns about high workplace temperatures in certain sectors causing serious health and safety concerns. We are committed to modernising health and safety guidance with reference to ext
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
It is already the case that the Health and Safety Executive provides a wide range of options for how employers can fulfil their responsibility to ensure that the people whom they employ are able to work in reasonable conditions, even in heatwaves. I have
2026-07-15
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
After this question, I will take a long, hard look at Part O of the building safety regulations. My noble friend, who is enormously knowledgeable in this area, makes an important point. Not only do we need to take the adaptation measures that I mentioned
That the Grand Committee do consider the Lifelong Learning (Fee Limits) Regulations 2026.
Relevant document: 3rd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
It is of course the case that, even for distance learning, if you had a disability, for example, you would have access to the disabled students’ allowance. However, with limited resource, we have to make decisions about where we want to focus maintenance
My Lords, I genuinely thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. It is always refreshing to debate something with people who were there at the beginning and who were part of the very important Augar review that led to this work in the
My Lords, I thank the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee for the scrutiny of this instrument they have provided. I believe that they were satisfied with it. The draft regulations were laid in Parliam
To be fair to them, that might be because I am frequently banging on about the opportunities of modularity and different ways of providers being able to offer courses. The noble Baroness also raised an important point about the proposed consultation on b
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Register of Interests · 2 entries on file
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Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Minister of State (Minister for Skills and Minister for Women and Equalities), Department for Education and Department for Work and Pensions
registered 2024-08-01 · amended 2025-09-08
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Jacqui Smith Advisory Ltd (inactive company)
registered 2025-01-14 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1997-05-01 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
2025-09-06 → present
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
2025-03-04 → 2026-07-21
Minister of State (Minister for Women and Equalities)
2024-10-08 → 2025-03-04
Lords Spokesperson (Equalities)
2024-07-06 → present
Minister of State (Education)
2007-06-28 → 2009-06-05
Home Secretary
2006-05-05 → 2007-06-28
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
2005-05-10 → 2006-05-05
Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Schools and 14-19 Learners)
2003-06-13 → 2005-05-06
Minister of State (Industry and the Regions) and Deputy Minister (Women)
2001-06-11 → 2003-06-13
Minister of State (Department of Health)
1999-07-29 → 2001-06-10
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education and Employment)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1998-11-09 → 1999-11-29
Treasury Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
smithjq@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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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.
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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)
5 bills
3 as lead sponsor
2 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2024-12-17 | |
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Act 2025 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2024-10-09 | |
| Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 | Supported | Royal Assent | 2009-01-14 | |
| Policing and Crime | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2008-12-18 | |
| Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2008-01-24 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.